Cornell Case Reopened, Tel Aviv Plane Attack & Jobs Report Update | PBD Podcast #866

0:28This podcast features Home Team and Patrick Bet-David. By the way, we're last minute preparing all the stories. Tom's here talking about Diddy because I don't even want to get into it. Don't even get into the name of the place. He had a Diddy party many, many years ago. I think it's cool where he's staying. Yeah. But obviously some interesting stories to cover here. MLB, this guy, Pintar, Sonny Gray. And then you got the other story, Peyton, Toley. Phenomenal story. You're so pretty. We have to play that for you to know how phenomenal of a story that is. But Major League Baseball, apparently during the playoffs, there's this thing called playoffs, and they're all fighting for this thing called the World Series.

1:08And there's this one company in the Major League Baseball that spends billions of dollars that is causing a potential strike to come around the corner named Dodgers, I think is what they call them. And they're going to be playing the Braves, right? The Yankees will be playing. It's all our fault. The Yankees are playing. The Yankees are playing. Who are the Yankees playing? The Tampa Bay. Yankees are going to Tampa Bay. This will be the series of the playoffs right now. It's a big series. Chicago White Sox against Cleveland, I believe. Correct. And then the other one is San Diego is going against?

1:37Milwaukee. Milwaukee. A hot San Diego going up to Milwaukee with all that talent. So who do you not want to face? Milwaukee or San Diego? Who do you not want to face? You know what? A hot San Diego team is very hard to face. Scary, yeah. But they're thin in their pitching. Physically? No, they're thin in pitching. Yeah. And so I would take them over Milwaukee. Milwaukee's got more talent. Okay. All right. So then we have jobs. They've never won a World Series. Oh, wow. That's pretty. Even with Robin Yount and all those guys. They've never won a World Series. And one other thing, Dodgers swept them in the NLCS last year.

2:05So they got a chip. I got it. So jobs report we'll get into, Vinny, when you have the numbers ready. Just give it to us on what's going on with the jobs report. It's generating right now. What is the story about, this pilot? 14 ,000 feet drops, nosedive in 30 seconds with a guy based on a TV show he watched. He got in there and saved the folks. and this is almost like, and then all of a sudden he gets off, he goes, BBC and him, people are saying this was a setup to get sympathy and sympathize. This is not a real thing. It's from a TV show. It was a show. That has really happened and CNN did a simulate, you know, like, hey, this is kind of what it would look like.

2:40I don't know if we have the video or not. Yes, they have the pilot. And then there's this other, the Cornell rape case that came up, which is very weird. So at first, this girl allegedly, well, not allegedly, she allegedly snorted cocaine off Ketamine off of a guy's dangling. Yes. Right? It was a bump. It was a bump. It was quick. So she gets this ketamine. And then she texts one of the guys that she had hooked up with two other guys. And then she texts the guy and says, hey, I really enjoyed it. Then a few months later, she realizes she can no longer be invited back to the parties because she was a, you know what?

3:22Labeled. Yeah. And then she then decides to go out there and say she was raped. And this story's a massive story. All these guys are getting caught up. It reminds me of the allegations, Tom, in the past when, was it Pence? I don't know which one it was. It was the players that were stuck in this rape allegation, athletes that ruled their careers. Oh, wait a minute. You're talking about the Duke lacrosse case. The Duke lacrosse case. With the crooked district attorney. It reminds me that they're trying to just throw these guys under the bus. So we'll go into that case, definitely. Many people wrote checks to the Duke lacrosse players.

3:52Listen, and then we have the other story, which is kind of weird. There's Krista Pike, P-I-K-E, Pike, in Tennessee. She's being executed because she's on death penalty. First time they fail, second time they fail. Now people are saying, wait a minute, what's going to happen with this girl? Are they going to be able to do it again? And then this has happened. And second time they've had a failed execution in the same year, in the same state, Tennessee. They're horrible at killing people. And now people are sympathizing and saying, my God, why? you know this poor girl if you're going to kill her don't kill her like this like kill her but then they forget Vinny's telling me the story of how her and her boyfriend she had a problem with this other girl they go take her out with a rock apparently they hit the head and then she keeps a piece of the girl's skull and brags about it to her friends these are the types of friends you don't want in life Adam true advice friends like these bad yeah so that's now a story We'll get into it.

4:52Some are saying, hey, we got to bring back, you know, the what do you call it? The electric chair. The electric chair. And this is all happening during the year where the governors are debating to become the governor because it's like open season right now. So it's become a topic of discussion. We'll talk about that. And then heating oil. If you're on the East Coast, if you're on the East Coast, you know, Tom was talking about this. Tom's been whispering to people saying, hey, even here, every time we turn on the heat, there's just turn it off. We got to save it for, you know, winter's coming.

5:20but all jokes aside, you know, apparently it is so cold in the East Coast that even the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox had to use pine tar because the ball was so cold that he had to use pine tar to try to beat the Yankees to kind of be able to have a little bit more velocity, which, you know, some people that play in prison. Slider spin. Yeah, slider spin. And he had it that night. But the reality of it is if this thing goes in the direction that it does, that whole statement of winter is coming, it could be coming to certain states. And when it does, it could be problematic. We'll cover that as well.

5:56I know we talked about a lot of diesel. We talked about gasoline. But this is a complete different conversation. We'll have that as well. And then there's this actress that we just have to play this video for you. We don't want to do it. You know, there's this actress that says, I wish my son was, she's saying that her son was gay. And she was disappointed that her son didn't want to, and you just have to watch this video. You would think if this is an act or not. You know, this girl right here, what's her name, by the way? Cameron Menheim? Nobody knows. Yeah, so anyways, we'll watch this as well.

6:26Maybe you agree, maybe you don't agree. And then we got a couple other stories we'll get into outside of that. There's a story about childless adults are spending more money on toys than parents. Let me say that one more time. Childless adults. adults these are people that don't have kids are spending more money for toys for themselves not adult toys like you go to you know you know triple x toy stores and you got certain toys not not handcuffs stuff like that we're talking about toys or us type of toys so childless people that don't want to have kids they want to buy toys so you know who's making a comeback toys or us is making a comeback just for these guys because they want to buy toys but you didn't know that they're making a comeback and uh and then mlb rises for four attendance four years straight to 71.75 million according to abc news exciting stuff that's going on there and the astros i will cover these sports stories at the end for some of you guys i want to hear this the astros had 7 000 empty seats in a playoff game playoff playoff nine games at home they've lost and the fans are furious Just booing them.

7:36They barely made the playoffs with 81-81. Best record. And they were 500 after 162 games. And fans are pissed off. We'll cover that. Should be. They should be. With that being said, we got a special announcement for you. If you notice why I'm wearing the jacket here. This beautiful jacket that on the back it says, Faith over fear. I want my friend to my left. You're right. Vincent O'Shanna to tell you about this jacket. Thank you, Pat. So, guys, we had this jacket for insiders only at the vault. and they were sold. I think they sold in two days. I called you. I'm like, Vinny, let's go have lunch.

8:09You're like, Pat, I can't. Everybody wants this jacket. Everybody was buying this jacket. So I want to let you guys know, the front of it has our crest. We have the lion crest here as well. And on the back, guys, like our hats say, Faith Over Fear, and this is kind of small. This is letting people know right off the jump. Faith Over Fear is on the back. That's sick. Is that ridiculous? With Hebrews 11.1 on the back, the inside of the jacket, it has all of our all of our VT Quest I'm telling you right now how warm is it we're talking about winter be real it's freaking warm in this thing I love it so guys and everybody was asking so and I'm telling you guys right now limited supply we only have a hundred hundred and they're gonna go like that a guy came up to you what did he an atheist I'm outside Adam's inside the store talking to people taking photos a guy goes out to me we're in the jack he's like Vinny oh my god he goes listen I'm gonna be honest with you I'm not a big believer I believe in some spiritual something I'm basically an atheist, but I have to rock the jacket because I love how it looks.

9:05An atheist bought this jacket, and Adam was there. Adam's my witness. So, anyway, guys, go right now to FLB.com and get yours. I'm almost positive this is going to be gone by the time the show's on. And, by the way, if you do it right, get the hat and the shirt with it to have the entire combination. The white shirt that goes with it and kind of like Vinny right now, the white shirt, the jacket, and the hat. Go to FLB.com. less than 100 of these jackets left, especially by sizes. All right, with that being said, let's get right into it. Tom, the first thing I want to talk about is jobs report.

9:37So last month, you were a little bit pissed off because Kevin Warsh comes out and he raises the rates and you were furious. We had to kind of calm you down. We got you cups of coffee. We got you all this stuff to come. We brought you different bottles of wine. But Tom's like, Warsh made a mistake. You shouldn't have raised the rate because you just don't do that, right? Anyways, then the report comes out today and inflation. Tom, why don't you tell the audience what happened with inflation going up? And I know you have your opinions on it, and we'll hash it out here together, but go for it. Okay, just from the last hour, so what we're talking about, you may see headlines, America, in the last hour.

10:10The jobs report was expected to be about$85 ,000,$89 ,000. And they also expected inflation to be about 4.1%. This report comes out every month, and here we are, September 2nd. So here comes the reports for October 2nd. Excuse me. It's October 2nd. Here comes a report for September. It comes out, and it was 29 ,000 jobs, not 8589. So that's 60 ,000 less. It means jobs cooling. And they said unemployment went from 4.1, where it had been for a couple months. I think three months in a row it's been 4.1. It went to 4.2. That's a very minor uptick. Unemployment went from 4.1. Unemployment, right. So inflation went what?

10:51What direction did inflation go? I think you're talking about inflation. No, no, the unemployment rate, 4-1 to 4-2. So those two things were in the jobs report. And so everyone was cheering this morning because what this means is that the Fed had said they were going to raise rates in October. And by the way, you know, the Fed meeting was actually three weeks ago that I was so upset. And now the next Fed meeting is like right in front of us, Pat. It's October 28th, 29th. So it's coming up quick in exactly four weeks. And so this morning, the bonds went down and the market went up in response to this.

11:26And people are saying this now puts pressure on the Fed to not raise rates again because they said they're going to raise them in October. And I don't think you should have raised them last time. But this data says don't do it again. And there's a lot of people, including me, that are happy about this. Yeah, and this now gives you the moral authority to push on Warsh and say, look, if unemployment is going in this direction now, now you've got to lower the rates. Because his argument was inflation, right? Because I think inflation went up. Correct. It rose 0.2 % for the month and 3 % year over year.

11:58And that's his biggest trigger, Tom, if I'm not mistaken. But people like me are fighting on that. I know. I say it's because of diesel. The diesel that's$650. By the way, over the weekend, it was$8.05. I double-checked. In California, they have those extra taxes. It was$8.05 diesel. So to deliver Amazon, to take strawberries from the field to the market, anything that diesel does, it inflates the price in our economy. But it's not sector inflation. It's a shock of oil and the supply. So I call that not real inflation because as soon as you can get diesel back down, everything else comes back down.

12:32And Wors looked at it and said it was full inflation. There's my debate on inflation. Okay, Adam, your thoughts on this. Well, look, I just want to compare the United States unemployment rate to the rest of the world. Because sometimes it'll give you just context as to how are we doing? Because I actually believe that the economy is pretty stable, and especially regarding compared to other countries around the world. So let me give you this. So United States unemployment rate is around 4%, give or take, right? We're not getting to 4.14. 4.2, they say. Anyway, so here's compared to other countries around the world.

13:05Just a little context right here. You ready? Australia, 4.6%. United Kingdom, 5%. India, 5%. Brazil, 5.3%. China, if you even believe their numbers, 5.4%. Canada, who's, you know, going to F around and find out with America with their little trade tiff, 6.5%. Turkey, the great Ottoman Empire out there, almost 8%. France, 8%, woke and weird out there. South Africa, when we're talking G20 countries, 33%. So there's very few countries, Mexico, 3%, and Germany, 4%, that are even on America's level. So let's give some context here. America's doing pretty damn good compared to all the major G20 countries around the world.

13:52But, you know, the average person is going to sit there and say, but we're America. It's not just about we're doing better than them. We're the greatest country in the world. We have to be crushing it better than everybody else. That doesn't mean we're not immune from situations. Sure, for sure. But what I'm telling you is a lot of folks are going to sit there and say, hey, that's not us. We got to do better. And some people are still feeling what's going on today in the marketplace. How long that lasts, who knows. But I'm convinced, Tom, I don't think they'll be raising rates in the next time around when it comes back, Tom.

14:20I think it's going to be a flat. I don't think they'll – Tom, are you listening, Tom? I'm looking at you. So they're not going to be raising rates. I know you're watching the content as well. I don't think they'll raise the rates next time. I think they'll stay flat with us next time. I think it'll be a decision that you see numbers like this gives favor to guys like you to say, now pump the brakes. Now, here's a question. What's the likelihood you think he'll lower the rates next time? Not great because the jobs report has happened now, and the meeting is on the 28th, 29th of October, and we don't have any major reports coming out.

14:54So unless someone like an auto industry has three big companies make layoff reports in the month of October, he doesn't have the data that would push him to lower it. He only has people like me pushing hard and Dr. J Strategy pushing hard on this side of it. Don't push too hard, Tom. No, no, but there's no data. The next jobs report doesn't come out for October until November 4th. I'll give you a little. So, Pat, that's the answer. I don't think I think he could keep flat. He'll be forced to. But I don't think he can go down. There's something called the CME Fed Watch that agrees with basically what you're saying.

15:33They're basically saying the next time that there's a Fed meeting, the odds are, if you look at Calci as well, they're going to skip an increase in October. So keep things stable. And then in December, there's a 60 percent probability of a potential rate hike. So brace for impact. Winter is coming. Just shout out to Vinny. Rates may go up by the end of the year again. Again, they may go up. That's what they're saying. 60 % chance in December. 60 % in December. Okay, we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen. Next story here. Adam really wanted to cover this story. It's a big story. It's a top story.

16:06Everybody's talking about this. And that is what happened with the flight, the Dubai flight. Okay, so fly Dubai flight passenger. Details treating wounded pilot after tying up suspect. Do you have a video on this? Do we have anything to show people with this? because here's what we're learning about the flight Dubai co-pilot who allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane. Let me read this to you. One day after flight Dubai co-pilot made a violent attempt to crash the passenger aircraft and was subdued by passengers and other crew members. Questions about his identity and motive continued to swirl Thursday.

16:40By the way, this is 14 ,000 feet. Vinny said nosedive 30 seconds. Is this the clip? Can you show what happened so that people realize? Is this showing pretty much what the flight was? It's going down. Down. That 14 ,000 and then takes a right turn. And then it comes back up. Is this the CNN? Well, there's a pilot that's saying it's insane. You know how, Pat, when I say miracle. This is the pilot. This is the pilot saying that this is almost impossible. Go for it. We're just coming into about 500 knots. Can't hear it. So some of the numbers that we're seeing from the reporting initially are. You can't hear the clip.

17:17Can you guys hear it? They don't make sense to me because if you're descending that rapidly, the aircraft would have disintegrated completely. So the numbers will change when we get the program. Oh, that's interesting. Because those, I mean, as you point out, those are only the numbers that we have right now. But interesting that you said that that could have caused it to break apart. And that maybe some of those are a little higher than actually happened. We do know there was damage on the rudder, right, from whatever the speeds actually will turn out to be. And portions of it apparently tore away during flight.

17:44Now, obviously, with serious damage to the rudder, a plane's going to crash. So when you just look at what we know here, how fortunate do you think it is that this plane was actually even able to safely land?

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20:23Once you start ripping apart electronics, or sorry, hydraulics, you start to bleed electronic fuel or hydraulic fuel. Excuse me, I'll get my words right here. The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was approaching Israel when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the flight captain and attempted to crash the aircraft. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi has said the captain fought off the co-pilot long enough to unlock the cockpit door. Passengers then overpowered the co-pilot and two off-duty pilots gained control and made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. There are 174 people aboard. No passenger was seriously injured.

20:56The pilot sustained stab wounds. An Omani official confirmed to CBS News that the attacker was born in Oman and holds Omani citizenship. Bibi speculated the incident looked like a suicide attempt. and the personnel information gathered during the questioning had led Israel to conclude that the co-pilot underwent Islamic radical indoctrination. President Trump suggested the co-pilot may have been linked to Iran based on what I'm hearing. Saudi Arabia said Thursday the co-pilot had been transferred to the UAE. Adam, thoughts on the story? Pat, the story is crazy. I mean, are you kidding me? And it hits very close to home because I was just in Tel Aviv.

21:29And when I was in Tel Aviv, they're like, do you want to go to Dubai? I was like, I don't know if I have enough time. But this story is straight out of a moment. What just happened? Yeah, the pilots can be... The story in Israel and Dubai is straight out of a movie, straight out of Dubai. And to me, there's a couple of different stories here. Number one, it's a story of culture. Here you have a radicalism versus heroism. You have some guy that somehow, not 25 years after 9-11, are you telling me the terrorists are not hijacking the plane? They're in the cockpit now? That's what's going on? That's the world we're living in right now?

22:01And then the second part of the story is heroism. We can focus all day on the Islamist. I guarantee you, shout out the famous two words, Allah Akbar, before he tried to take this plane down. I'll guarantee you that. But I want to focus on the heroism. First and foremost, this Indian captain, Smith, are you kidding me? Flying the plane, all of a sudden gets stabbed. Next thing you know, he's trying to fight for his life. Opens the cockpit door. You picked the wrong plane, Allah Akbar, buddy. You picked a plane full of badass Israelis. Next thing you know, a plumber shows up. Not a military guy, not a captain.

22:40A plumber, straight out of Don't Mess with the Zohan, shows up like scrappy cocoa, making things silky smooth, subdues the hijacker, whips him up, puts the cord around him from his headphones, ties him up. Plane is plummeting. He saves the day. Next thing you know, they avoid another 9-11 style attack one week before October 7th. And then he shows up to Bibi Netanyahu's office. Bibi goes, how did you do this? He goes, yeah, I watch TV show. It's called the plane crash investigations. This is how I learned from. Are you kidding me? Some plumber shows up, saves the day. Next thing you know, a dentist, don't call me not a doctor, a dentist bandages up the captain, saves his life.

23:28he's fighting for his life this indian captain this story could have ended so much uglier so much we don't know the motive yet well we don't know the i mean we kind of know the motive i'm being serious do we know the well i'll tell you this i'll let you figure this out one story is basically saying a radical jihadist pilot took over the plane and wanted to allah akbar things and then you have the mainstream media basically saying an altercation what i'm asking you is are Are there any passengers that said they heard or saw anything? What I'm interested in is what did the 174 passengers say they saw?

24:03Here's what they said they saw. Did they say they heard anything? They didn't hear anything. Several passengers said they heard screaming and shouting from the cockpit while the aircraft was diving. One passenger's wife who was near the front with their daughter reportedly heard her struggle just before the wounded captain came through the cockpit doorway. When passengers rushed through, they said they saw the captain badly injured and bleeding, lying near the cockpit entrance. A dentist on board said the captain was in real bad shape with heavy bleeding, especially from the head. The co-pilot near the controls apparently trying to interfere with or damage the flight controls.

24:34Passenger Yaniv Huyan. That's the plumber. Okay, said there was no pilot sitting normally in either seat when he entered. Passengers physically dragging the co-pilot out of the cockpit and restraining him in the cabin. some accounts say they eventually tied him with corded headphones one passenger Hayun then jumped back into the cockpit pulling the controls in an effort a regular person jumps in and tries to pull let me let me can I just explain something to you these are all regular people and I want to give a shout out to the Israelis out there every single Israeli has to go to the IDF has to go to the military for two years and then they go live their normal life when you're walking around Israel the plumber, he was in the military.

25:17The architect was in the military. The dentist was in the military. They are born and bred to deal with radical Islamists on an everyday basis. So the plumber stay ready. You know how they say, stay ready so you don't have to get ready? This guy picked the wrong freaking plane. Any other plane, this guy would have... And we know nothing about the guy that stabbed him? We know nothing about the guy that stabbed him. A citizen of Oman, and all we know they have not released his name. When they tied him up his name when the age photograph has not been released i don't know what's going on to the people of saudi and pat you're asking a question you're asking he was just he was just yelling one thing after they tied him up you know what he was yelling kill me please kill me please i want to die who did he say that who heard that's you that's what the passengers were basically saying musayev who was the um the dentist said he and another pastor then tied the suspect's hands with the headphones.

26:09The suspect said fewer words other than he was from Oman and he told them, kill me, kill me, please. That's what they're dealing with. Yeah, one report says a fellow pilot described him as having joined Fly Dubai only about eight months earlier and being unusually religious, including frequent prayer and avoiding handshakes with women. Okay, this is the kind of stuff I want to know. And that's from the Indian Express. Those details come from secondary reporting and have not been publicly confirmed by Fly Dubai. Some reports say pro-Palestinian, free Palestine material was fined among his belongings, but that claim is not yet confirmed by UAE authorities.

26:48And so far, investigators have not established an Iranian connection, which is what the president said, or evidence that he was acting on behalf of a foreign government. Israeli security has reportedly leaned toward him acting alone on stage, and after the plane landed, he received metal treatment when he was detained. and he was subsequently transferred to Abu Dhabi, UAE. So they got to find out. The question is how quickly they're going to report on this. Vinny, what are you at with this? Can you guys hear me? No, I can hear you. Nothing. I mean, it's a miracle. And Adam made a great point. It's like if you're ready and you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.

27:23And the fact that, like think about this. First of all, what about security? How in God's name did this guy bring a knife? Everybody has to go through metal detectors. I don't care who you are. I don't know how they do it over there. Everybody has to get checked. Everybody has to go through screening to get on there. Not only did he bring a knife on there, but you understand how much you have to be fighting to get that guy off and then to open the door. You have to open the door or else it's going down. And that CNN simulator guy, Pat, he said, the majority of the time when this happens, they're all going to die.

27:54You're all going to die. Everybody's going down. So he fought. He got them out there. And you can't ask for like the scenario is, Pat, almost 99 % of the time they're going to all die. You know what's crazy? Let me tell you, I interviewed Jacob Coxon yesterday. You guys know who he is? Yeah, of course. Jacob Coxon is the guy. AI guy. This is the first long-form podcast he did. I can't wait for the audience. This is the first long-form podcast he did. The AI guy that left Anthropic and he was at OpenAI for three years came in yesterday. We did a two-and-a-half-hour, two-hour podcast, which I can't wait for the audience to see.

28:25One of the questions I asked them, because they're like, well, he's tied to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and that Newspeak, which was an organization of commies and socialists. And he gives his answer about what that is. But the one part I said, you know, are you a climate change person? You know, you're young, so typically it's the end of the world, you know, all these things. He says, I'm not. He answers it himself. You'll see it. But the one thing he said, I said, some say, you know, if we don't build it, China will. Okay? He says, that's the wrong mentality. Look what he said. Look what he said.

29:00He says, Patrick, we know China has spies working at Anthropic and OpenAI that if they wanted to, they can take that technology and ship it off to China. The way they do it is they send Chinese nationals to work at Anthropic and OpenAI, and then they're reporting back to China. So in the middle of the interview, we go and we start searching to see how many Chinese nationals are at the higher level executives. And I ask him names, you know, who he thought. You have to hear what he says, his answers. Again, it comes out on Tuesday. But let me tell you what his answer was. This is the one part I'll reveal to the audience.

29:34He specifically said, I have a lot of friends that work at Anthropic, and they're going to be upset with me. He says, just like a foreign national cannot work for SpaceX, a Chinese national cannot work for SpaceX. But they can work for Anthropic, and they can work for, what do you call it, open AI. So he says, I think as much as some of my friends are going to be not happy with me, I don't think Chinese nationals should work for Anthropic and Open AI. I fully agree. But here's where I'm going to. So the part where I'm going to with this pilot stuff is, I don't know what fly Dubai's, I don't know what some of these guys are doing.

30:09I mean, listen, man, if you're flying a plane, some people may be sitting there saying, I need to know who the pilot is. Of course. As a passenger, do you think we have the right to know who the pilots are? Yes. Do you think it needs to do? And I'm being honest with you. Remember one time we got on a flight and October 7th happened? It was the next day. Do you remember that flight? I don't know if you remember this or not. We're going to on a flight. I think the moment I tell you, Vinny, you'll remember this. You were on the flight as well. We're going on a flight. The pilot has flown me quite a few times.

30:41I like this guy. Late 20s, early 30-year-old Jewish guy. Former IDF. He comes in and he is shook up. Like when I tell you shook up, you can tell he hasn't slept at all. It's the next day. Now I know exactly who you're talking about. It's the next day. And I'm like, how you doing? He says, not good. I said, how you feeling right now? He says, the only thing on my mind is I want to go back to Israel and fight for my country. So then I got on the fight and I'm like, oh, shit. Then I had to go find out who the co-pilot was. By the way, I love this guy. He's a great guy. I had to go and say, let me see who the co-pilot is because this guy is a little bit.

31:19Set off. He's not in the right place. So then I went and met the co-pilot. I'm like, okay, at least this guy is going to be good. That's helping him out. The entire flight, I was concerned because he was in a place, naturally, you can't blame the guy where he's at. Crazy. When I hear stories like this, part of it to me as a passenger is going to be like, look, I need to know a report of who the pilot is before I get on the flight. Okay, here's who the pilots are. Boom, boom, boom. You know, like if you're going to, who's the Uber driver? This is the Uber driver. Yeah, here's a breakdown. Okay, great.

31:49Here's what I want to know. I think there needs to be a scoring something that passengers get for pilots. Maybe don't give me this full name. Maybe put John D, Larry J, you know, Mary X, whatever, so you don't give the whole last name, but I get something. As we're going through this direction, we need to kind of find out who are these people that are getting these types of jobs. And as a person that's flying and travels a lot, you know, a co-pilot does this? So now you're not even protected from a co-pilot? And you mean to tell me you couldn't figure this part out as an institution and an organization?

32:24I mean, listen, we all make mistakes as business owners, but that's a pretty rough place to be. You're dealing with people's lives. This is literally, this story could very easily be 174 people were killed in a flight that crashed, apparently, and we know nothing. Nope. By the way, that's the story that should have happened. if they if the if the captain thank god wrestled out of the cockpit door hero the the people came the guy learned to fly the plane from watching tv show yeah are you kidding me these people should all be dead they should all be doing hell marys and baruch hashems right now it's crazy and i know tom wants to say something i'll say one last thing this is the world we're living in right now 25 years after 9-11, it's not terrorist hijackers who take over the plane.

33:12It's the actual captain of the plane. Let me tell you, though, you have to think like the enemy. I'm telling you, Jacob Coxon yesterday gave me perspective about AI nobody else has given to me. Like, I can't wait for the audience to see this because I went in, I'm like, this guy is possibly a socialist, NGO, you know, all this stuff. You're going to walk away saying you like this guy, sincere. And by the way, you know what I asked him? Because to see, you know, where he's at. Remember the whole thing when the whistleblower, the parent whistleblowers came and said, Sam Altman killed my son. The engineer.

33:41The engineer. You should see the answer he gave. This is not a guy that was a fan. So anyways, all I'm tying it together with. I think the part about where companies have to be watching carefully is foreign nationals working for a company that has actual direct impact to lives and direct impact to Intel, AI, certain technologies that could. That is a valid, valid threat that people are bringing up, especially if you're a foreign national from China, if you're a foreign national from some of these countries that are coming, you're working that we have to be careful with. You know how, like right now, one of the things that we have at our company that people have fun with is who worked here that was former CIA?

34:29You know that game that people play, okay? Who worked here that's with Mossad, right? And we know who that is, right? Who always comes here with Mossad agents and has always got these people? and, you know, who is tied to this? People joke with it. Part of it is not a joke, by the way, just so you know. A part of it is not a joke. A part of it is you have to kind of find out where people are coming from. Do you think people affiliated with the CIA have been here? Think so? I would say 95%. Wow. Say it one more time. He says, do you think people who are dealing with CIA or intel, do you think, dude, let me tell you, if they started watching Reagan 17 years before he ran for governor, Russia did, you think these people are not, You don't think people have come and worked you to see what the true motive is and go report it back to certain people?

35:12You're naive. But certain companies have to take it even beyond that. I don't know. As a pilot, as a passenger, I would want to report on a pilot whatever flight I'm going to. I don't know if that report is even out there or not. Are you talking about when you fly private or when you fly public airplanes? Either way. No matter what it is. It needs to be, here you go. Private. Here's who the pilots are. How do you do that on a public plane? Are you going to leave the plane if you don't like what the pilots are? Absolutely. Give me the option. Yeah, give me the option. Absolutely. Give me the option.

35:38How about this? 24, you know, they have those bands that tell you your workout and your heart rate and everything. I want to know for 24 hours, did he sleep? Did you go to sleep? Did you get into a huge fight with your wife? You're dealing with someone's life. You're dealing with someone's life. Uber, you can give ratings. 4.7, 5.0, whatever. How do you do that on pilot? I think the same thing needs to happen. Probably. I think the same thing needs to happen. All right, so let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get into is the story with, very weird story, folks. I don't even know how to read this to you, but this is the story of Cornell, a rape story that came out with this young girl.

36:12And let me just kind of go through the timeline because it is a crazy story, right? It is a crazy story. Apparently, this girl was snorting ketamine off a guy's dangling. And I know that kind of sounds weird. It's not like maybe everybody does that. And I haven't been exposed to other stuff, but apparently she was snorting ketamine off. Anyways, let me kind of go through it. Timeline. An upstate New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into claims of a former Cornell student was drugged and raped by seven men by the, how do you pronounce that? Chi-Fi Fraternity? Chi-Fi. Chi-Fi. Chi-Fi Fraternity House in 2024.

36:46Here's the timeline. August 2022, Jane Doe begins her freshman year at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. October 18th, beautiful day, 2024, which I'm saying the date. I'm born on that day. I'm not saying it's a beautiful day because the incident that happened here. Someone overdoses on ketamine at the Chi-Fi house per a redacted Cornell report. Next day, Jane Doe alleges she was drugged and gang raped by seven men at this party. Investigation documents says she arrived already intoxicated. She says she kept drinking there and accepted drugs before agreeing to a threesome and losing consciousness. Next day, a fraternity member alleges members messages that the Kifi Snapchat group claiming there was free sex upstairs.

37:32Okay, here we go. October 23rd, she texts the man who invited her, male number one, my reputation is destroyed and I'm utterly ashamed. She texts, this is documented. October 30th, texting male number one after being uninvited to a Kifi event, y 'all aren't my friends. Y 'all are coving your asses. Okay, November 7th, 2024. Mail number one says he fears being labeled an assaulter. She replies, I haven't said anything, and I know there are rumors I was gangbanged. November 8th, 2024. She texts, I think I'm done talking to you. I know you lied. Then files a police report. Cornell suspends the chapter and several students.

38:14Six days later, November 14th. She gives a formal statement to the campus who refer it to district attorney, prosecutor, declined to charge. 12 days later, November 26th Interim President Michael Kotlikoff Cites serious and deeply disturbing allegations Of drug abuse and sexual violence At the Chi-Fi Fraternity House January 14, 2025 Cornell opens a Title 9 Is that Title 9 or Title 11 Investigation into her formal complaint February 6, 2025 Kotlikoff and Provost Kavita Bell Launch a Presidential Task Force On Campus Sexual Assault May 2nd to May 29, 2025. They hold at least 12 hearings, 50 interviews, 32 witnesses.

38:58Jane Doe, I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. November 4, 2025. A Cornell survey finds 35 % of undergrad women and 8 % of men report non-consensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation. September 16, 2026. This is a week ago, two weeks ago. She sues Cornell, Kai Phi, her sorority, and seven accused men. One week later, September 21st, Cornell Daily editorializes Cornell has failed to protect its students. September 27th, DA Matthew Van Houten reopens the case but says her sworn statements describe her participation in drug use and sexual contact as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.

39:42Then lawyers for Scott Kreshmer and Scott Norris deny involvement. Ethica police say the case was never reopened to them. Cornell says it occurred on Cornell jurisdiction. September 29th, Kathy Hochul gets involved, demands an outside investigation, and Cornell agrees. Van Hooten defends the 2024 decision while calling the allegations morally disturbing. The full statement shows Jane Doe said it felt like coercion. An attorney for Gillow, Lopez, also denies the allegation. And then yesterday, Hockel appoints, ready? Letitia James. Oh, my God. Be Letitia James. Oh, wow. She's still not in jail.

40:18Be Letitia James. Yeah. Special prosecutor saying the case has undercut my faith and the public's faith in the DA. James says she is ready to lead a process New Yorkers can trust. Vinny. Okay, so if you're violently gang raped over and over and over during the course of a night, you're going to wait three weeks before you're calling the campus police i'm sorry guys i don't believe it and then the wait the text the conversations with the friends everything that happened in those three weeks okay especially when her own messages initially say that nothing illegal happened and she enjoyed part of it okay and by the way just i want to put this out there i genuinely feel bad for the whole situation is horrible but you put yourself in that dangerous situation okay that doesn't give anybody the right to sexually assault you but you can't also like remove personal responsibility from your actions because and then blame everybody afterwards and i saw this video uh yesterday that made a great point this girl said i get i get drunk and get into a car accident it's 100 my fault but if i get drunk and i sleep with someone and i regret it in the morning i can blame him it doesn't make any sense and what about the guys you said there was accounts where the guys, some of the guys were drunker than she was.

41:34So if your argument is that being drunk means somebody cannot consent, then that standard has to go across the board. So either standard matters for everybody or it means nothing. Because the guys right now can be like, well, I didn't consent. I was drunk. I didn't know what the hell was going on. And in fact, the main thing I take away from this story is her upbringing. Who are this girl's parents? Were they together? Were they divorced? What kind of morals and and values are you teaching this kid? Because by her own account, she was a virgin in high school. Then she goes to college and randomly winds up in a situation like this.

42:09That change doesn't happen in a vacuum. I would tell my daughter or son the same thing. Protect yourself. Protect your reputation. Don't get freaking wasted. By the way, you don't go from that to sniffing ketamine off of somebody's penis in one year. That doesn't, I don't care. Your choices matter. and pretending they don't is doing, like, young people no favor. So people can be harsh. I call it being an adult, okay? If these men raped her, prove it. In court, prosecute them. If they didn't, then guess what? These guys should be able to do a countersuit and go after her and go after the school if the school's going to go after them.

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45:05Still haven't started? Hey, better late than never. Sell your car today on Carvana. Pickup fees may apply. Yeah, and they found a few other text messages of what she said. She said she was super colluded in the same exchange she wrote. that none of the sexual stuff was illegal in the text. She said after she was the incident. She also said she liked being with that man and another man and later suggested that they could smoke together again but without the extra 5 billion men and ketamine. So only her and two other men. And then she said, bro, everyone knows what happened was ruining my life temporarily and that all she could do was sleep and cry all day.

45:48and she said in a text again, the woman will always get the shorter end of the stick. Y 'all aren't friends. Y 'all are covering your asses. Let's be clear that 90 % of what happened that night was not consensual. Then she says that on November 3rd. And another message cited in the investigation that she felt like a sex doll worker. Very weird. So Tom, where are you at with this? So I think the court of public opinion is out on her. We'll leave it be. I hope she gets counseling, and I hope that if there was crimes committed that they're properly prosecuted. But let me say something about the boys.

46:27You are an idiot. It is poor judgment. If you're going to get involved in a sexual act like that, you're putting yourself in a position to be in the headline with her, even if she is completely making things up the same way things happen with Duke Lacrosse. If you were in there cheering with your$20 bills when you thought it was a stripper coming into Duke La Crosse, you put yourself in the opportunity to have your name in a headline in a campus report and a police report because she makes an accusation. If you're not there, your name can't be there. So I think the boys were poor judgment and idiots for being there in the first place.

47:03You're putting yourself in a horrible situation because look what happens. Things can happen maybe that were perfectly legal, perfectly consenting between people, even though people were drunk and everything. Okay, that may be legal consent, but your name's still in the headlines. Idiot, do you want your name in the headlines or do you want to finish college? Now I'll say something about Cornell. Cornell, in my opinion, is a horrible place. I have talked in the last year, and I knew about this because this case has gone back a couple years. as it's been headlines. People, I was talking to two separate sets of parents about veterinary school.

47:39And they said, you know, I think UC Davis up by Sacramento's number one and Cornell's number two. And I said, you're right, it is. But I wouldn't send my kid to Cornell. Why? Because once upon a time, one of my daughters wanted to study veterinarian and I studied Cornell. But then I read about Cornell. The Cornell campus, I do not believe, is properly controlled and properly administered. You're saying this. This is your opinion. I'm saying it. My opinion two years ago talking to a family about— Wow. And why do you say that? They're saying that to you? No, I'm saying it— Why are you saying that?

48:08Be specific. I was specifically—I read about this case two years ago. This has been going on two years. Yeah. And I read about it, and I also read associated things that the fraternity culture that is at Cornell is quote-unquote out of control and not administered— Let me get this straight. Because of this story, you discourage your girls from going to Cornell. I've discouraged two other parents that had girls talking about vet school because Brooke at one point wanted to go to vet school. These people saw that UC Davis was number one. Cornell was number two. And I said, just go to Florida. Florida's top five vet school and you can be bright futures.

48:44And one of them is a family from Florida. And so it won't cost you anything. So I have – this is my opinion based on what I read. So with Cornell, don't go sending me a letter with 12 names at the top. This is my opinion on the things with your name on it and your logo that are out there. The allegations are your fraternity group is out of control. Let me ask you this. You don't administer it, and you're not protecting your students. Go a little bit deeper. So what should they do? So what role does Cornell play here? What should they do to prevent this? It's already been done. What could they have done to prevent this?

49:17Well, I'll tell you. The whole fraternity system is rife. Hazings, what do we read every year? What do we read? about hazings in a fraternity system where colleges largely turn a blind eye to it. So number one, I'll give you a great example. Rice got rid of fraternities in the 50s because they thought that they excluded people, that kids felt left out, and so they encourage kids to be part of the residential college system where every kid is assigned to a residential college at Rice, and they have their own traditions and things, so they bring natural inclusion, Not fake DEI inclusion, natural inclusion where no freshmen are left out.

49:59Every one of you is part of a residential college. The fraternity system creates the us and them. And the hazing that goes on in the fraternity system is bad. And I think colleges like Cornell need to absolutely think, is it time to shut down the fraternity system and create alternative housing for kids to bring non-fake inclusion? And you know what I mean by fake inclusion, Pat? Yeah, it's very interesting the angle you're taking, Tom. It's very interesting. So you're going to, one thing you can do as universities is get rid of fraternities, sororities, any of that stuff that you have because of what happens there.

50:33And police behavior better. And police behavior better. Now, some will say that's part of the college experience, like folks who went to Florida State or Arizona State, or give me some of those Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara. These are some party types of schools. Hey, you're boring, Tom. You don't know what you're talking about. We want to go there for that exact reason. I'm sorry. I don't want my son, if I had a son, to go to Cornell and have an STD and his name in the newspaper be part of the college experience. No, that's valid. But some people will say that is part of the college experience.

51:01So parents. You're rolling a dice. I totally get that. I'm trying to say here, one, who accepted me? Where am I smart enough to get into? What are my options? Number two, parents learning more. So right now, Tom, as a parent, what role should parents play if their kid is about to go into college? What should we be doing? If you're not visiting colleges and reading everything you can about the college and you're just thinking about the college as a merit badge, you're making a mistake. This is why places like Hillsdale are growing and growing for the right reasons because they're teaching kids to think not to be indoctrinated and look at the culture of behavior that also happens.

51:37So true. I will tell you a story. And I don't know how much of this story I'll tell. This entire time I'm thinking about how much of it I want to give away. But I'm in the Army. And the guys in the Army, there was a girl, she had a nickname. I remember her nickname. You want me to tell you her nickname? What was the nickname? Jawbone. Okay. I don't know that. That was her nickname. T-Bone. Yeah, no, no, no. Jawbone. And in the mail bathroom in the barracks, there were things written all over the place. and she would come in and write such and such night in this room, everybody come. Okay, I'm telling you.

52:15So me and my two guys that we hung out with, he'd come to me and say, hey, man, you saw that again? I said, yeah. I said, dude, whatever we're doing, we're going to Nashville that night. We'd go to Nashville that night to be away from the barracks. Smart. To just be away. We'd come back on Monday, and guess what they would say? sergeant would come in on Saturday such and such happened 14 soldiers are being called on to be investigating on what happened that night. Weird. Because she doesn't remember anything. One of the benefits I had a drill sergeant that told me from the beginning listen, remember a few rules in the army.

52:5115 will give you 20. Yep. And you know what that is. 15 will give you 20. What does that mean? Poking up with a 15 year old will give you 20 years. A girl with a fake ID at a local place. He said, don't even trust fake IDs. So even fake IDs in the middle of it, you ask a girl for a fake ID, don't even trust the fake IDs. Don't even trust the fake IDs. Then, never be in barracks alone with a girl in the army because all they're going to say is what? Here's what happened. By the way, these are the types of conversations that I think fathers need to have with their sons and mothers need to have with their sons because sometimes it's kind of like, yeah, it's my boy.

53:28That's cool. You're setting them up for failure by not having these types of conversations. And you made a good point. How was she raised? I don't know how she was raised. We don't know about her parents. We don't know what happened to you. We don't know what the experience was. By the way, it could have very likely been that it was good parents. And she just chose to be dumb because one day she chose to drink and be stupid. And now this is on her timeline for the rest of her life. And so far, they've protected her name. But guess who knows who she is? Those seven guys and all the other people from the Chi-Fi, whatever fraternity they're talking about.

53:56Adam, your thoughts here. You had the full college experience yourself. So let's see what your angle is. Look, I have a different take than everybody here. I appreciate what Tom had to say about these boys being idiots. I do have some thoughts on the fraternity system. But let me start with what the number one thing is on this situation. It all comes down to personal responsibility and personal choices. Because she's not just doing any old little drug here. How familiar are you with ketamine and what it does? Because that's not like, oh, she's just doing drugs. Ketamine is a whole different level of drug.

54:33And the reason I know this is one of my best friends is prescribed ketamine. And I think he does it a little too much. And it's a little too over the top. Let me explain. Antidepressant. It's supposed to be treated as an antidepressant. Yeah. Okay. But what it does, ketamine, have you ever heard of the concept of a K-hole? I've heard something like that. Let me explain this to you. If you do enough of it, not only will it treat your depression, it'll make you blast off to a different planet and it affects the brain so hardcore that it changes your perception of reality and you enter a dream light hallucinogenic state yeah so and you know what is even more absurd about this drug it looks exactly like cocaine take a look at what ketamine looks like here's a picture on your screen do you see it yeah it looks like does that not look exactly like cocaine and it even looks like cut like rails or lines so let me explain something to you.

55:28I've been at a party in South Beach when there's cocaine going around. I mean, welcome to South Beach. This one guy thought that he was doing a bump of cocaine. Boom, blast off. He could not move for six hours. He was in a K-hole. He did not know what he was doing. He did not know where he was. We're like, hey, is our friend coming with us? They're like, he's going to be a while. Thank God he's okay. But my whole concept of personal responsibility and personal choices. If this girl chose... And to inhale what she thought was a drug, whether she thought it was cocaine or knew that it was K-ketamine, she willingly entered the third realm.

56:13Now, she made that decision. So it's on her. At the same time, if you're a dude and you're at a fraternity and you see one, two, three, four guys doing this to a girl, at what point as you as a man say, bro, what are you doing? this girl's clearly messed up oh no no she wanted to do it yeah yeah yeah yeah maybe with him not with all seven of you so to me there's personal responsibility on both ends on her not to do drugs and on these idiots not to end up in a rape case but at the end of the day like this situation let's just call it what it is she's one of those girls that went in there and did what she did you can't at the end of it get embarrassed because everybody's talking about you and say rape because then you're going to ruin and destroy other people's lives.

57:00Tom's right. Those guys were more at them. You don't – five guys in a room, apparently, they were texting on, like, some social media apps saying, yo, come through. This is happening. All stupid decisions. But that word rape is a whole different ballgame because now she's like, oh, wait a minute. I'm embarrassed. You know what? You were – somebody's like – Let me be very specific. If she did a good amount of ketamine, I don't even think she knows what planet she was on during that rape. So she might have known that she was there to see a guy. I'm just being straight up. Yeah, I understand. If she did a good amount of ketamine, buddy, she wasn't on this planet.

57:35I understand that. I need you to understand that. I understand that, but are other guys coming in going, hey, there's not a ketamine checker. Hey, where's she at on the ketamine thing? They don't know. They're just hearing, hey, come on in and have some. What are you saying? What I'm saying is, Pat, I think she was there. She wanted to hook up. She was down. I don't know what happened at the end of the night because her story is changing. But what I'm saying is, if you're there, Adam, if I show up to a strip club and I see strippers, I can't be like, oh, my God. I need you to understand something, buddy.

58:03She wanted to hook up with guys. I need you to understand something. Multiple guys. She said it. But I need you to understand one specific thing. If she was in a K-hole. How would you know, though? How would a guy know? Like, if you're high, I don't know if she's in a K-hole. Back up a second. If a girl is really, really, really, really, really drunk and you're with her. And do you know that she's really, really, really? Absolutely. Bingo. Yeah. So if a girl's in a K-hole, that's like 10x drunk. So hear me out. Okay. If this girl is literally like. If she's passed out. That's my point. 100 % different story.

58:33Is that if she was fully in a K-hole, she wasn't like, woo, let's go, guys. It's not cocaine. Cocaine, she's going crazy. Let's have fun. If it was ketamine and it was a K-hole, there's a very good chance that she was like this. But that's what I'm saying. Did she say, Pat, in the story, did she say she was there? Buddy, she don't remember, dog. What don't you get? I think 90 % of what happened to me was illegal. Illegal. But she said that a few weeks after that. I think, again, I haven't followed this case. I'll just say this one thing. I could see a scenario where the first guy that she was with and came to be was actually, he'll get off, meaning he's innocent.

59:12But if these other guys who showed up in the room while she's K'd out, they're going to pay the price. They might be in some big, big trouble. I don't know the details beyond that. And if the first guy let them in, someone that is on K and in a K-hole, they are not in an awareness state. So this is the whole situation here is like, but she showed up, she wanted to be there, but then she did this drug and then she didn't know where she was. It's a very complicated situation. Be very careful what you put in your body. We're talking about judgment of men. We're talking about K-holes appropriately thing where people may be.

59:47But I'll tell you here, three different sources I just found have pointed out, and this was the stuff I read, and I recognize one, the Cornell Sun is one of the things I read. It says, Cornell arguably has the most troubled Greek system in the Ivy League. The negative side is a long hazing and safety record. Sophomore died in 2011. Another one died in 2019. 2014, seven fraternities were suspended over hazing allegations. in February. Delta Phi was permanently suspended, then reduced to five years, according to these stories. And the public hazing log is now, the hazing log is now made public so parents and prospective students can see it, but it has become longer and worse when you look at the years 24, 25, 25, 26.

1:00:32So it's basically there you have it. There you have it. What can parents do? Read stuff like this and say to yourself, am I sending my daughter in Cornell. I love this conversation. I love this conversation on what happened. Because you had a different lens. You had a very different lens. And you had a very different lens. And yeah, we have to be ready for it. We have to be ready for it. And for me, with my boys, my kids, you have to be also careful what not to brag about with your boys for them to be like, that's what I'm going to do to be a hero. And we're kind of having a conversation this morning when Anthony asked you a question and we're going back and forth.

1:01:08I'm like, I don't know if we got to balance some of these conversations. That's why I'm not part of this camp. There's a reason why Bible wanted you, the Bible wanted us to save ourselves before. There's a reason. There's a reason. Not that we did it. I failed miserably. But there's a reason for it. You know how they say, you know, am I early? The whole thing that father or son go through three stages. First you idolize him, then you demonize him, then you humanize him. And then you say, my dad knew everything, man. My dad is a lot smart. He's getting smarter lately. My dad's getting smarter lately.

1:01:42No, no, it's been the same guy. My mom was right all along. My mom was right all along. Takes you a while to go through it. Man, if you can really be coachable for some of these seasons. Ben Affleck said something the other day in a video I saw. He says, I'm sitting with my son, and I'm giving him advice, my kids. I'm giving him advice about life. And then I said, listen, I've been through some things in life. Here's what you should do. He says, dad, you want us to take advice from you? You? He says, yeah, trust me. I have the experience. Hello? I have the experience. He's joking about it, but it's like your parents are kind of like, is this the one?

1:02:17Yeah, when I was a boy at 14 years old, my father was so ignorant. I could hardly stand to have the man around. But when I got to 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned instead of Mark Twain. Is that actually a Mark Twain quote? Yeah, it is. It's a Mark Twain quote. Let's get to the next story. Let's get to the next story. Good fine guys in the back. Good fine guys in the back. Okay. Next story I want to get to is another weird one, but let's skip this weird one. Let me go to another one. So this actress is giving a speech. We're not going to stay on the story a lot. We're not going to talk about it.

1:02:52It's not about rap, but we're talking about rappers. And so this lady here. We are against those. Yeah, we are against these types of mentality. She says she wishes her son was gay because one of her friends had a son that was gay. and he says, what's better than having a gay son? I just want you to watch this speech and tell me if it motivates any one of you. Go for it. I always wanted a gay son. I did. I love that relationship between gay sons and their mothers. I want to be the picket sign holding mom who would beat the shit out of somebody for her kid. I mean, let's just admit it. Gay sons are the best, right?

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1:07:49How does that make you feel? That your mom is not happy, that you're not some flamer that's jumping around. By the way, no, Adam, in the streets of West Hollywood, bro, I live there. They would shut down. You couldn't drive in the Hollywood because there was butt-naked men outside. I'm talking about Sodom and Gomorrah stuff. Butt-naked, going on set-up crucifixes. You want to talk about evil? You want to talk about demonic-type behavior, Pat? In the streets of LA, and it was totally fine. Little kids, parents, straight parents bringing their kids, and I would see, I felt so bad, little kids looking at butt-naked men, flashing them in front of their faces, okay?

1:08:24And this is Hollywood, bro. Hollywood preaches acceptance, but acceptance has to work both ways, okay? What are we talking about? If that's not the weirdest thing you've seen all month, I don't know what is. It's disgusting. Tom, your thoughts, Tom? How about a normal son? I don't know where to start. I'm just kind of stunned. But in a way, I'm not stunned because she is fully indoctrinated. She's fully in the liberal crowd, and she's fully out there. She's gone to the point of faking it to the point it looks like she really believes what she's saying. Oh, yeah. And that is the endpoint of full indoctrination is advocacy.

1:09:05You suddenly become an advocate for what you're indoctrinated in. So in other words, you follow that, Pat? That you go down the indoctrination. So in other words, you're indoctrinated to the point that you're not just going to be a suicide bomber. You're actually recruiting people not because you're trying to get a checkmark. You're actually recruiting people because you now believe it at the core of your being. You've been so deluded. The Bible says that they were given over to their desires. And the Lord says that this is not the natural inclination of our heart. This is not our natural orientation as people.

1:09:41It's not. And people can say it is, whether it isn't. But when you go all the way over to indoctrination, you've given your heart over to this level of evil. The people that are advocates for abortion, they don't just think it's the right thing. Let the woman have a choice. No, they're all the way over the waterfall in advocation for the killing. You can't be there. But I don't think a lot of people, Pat, really believe like she does. I think there's fakery in the liberal area. Can we play, and Vinny has it up here, what Bill Maher said? This is just one sentence, two sentences, what he said when he did his, remember when he pointed out 6 % of this generation, 12 % of this generation, 10 % of this generation?

1:10:20It's two minutes. I mean, we remember. We remember watching this. No, I had him cue it to one point. That involves children. The answer can't always be that anyone from a marginalized community is automatically right, Trump card, mic drop, end of discussion. because we're literally experimenting on children. Maybe that's why Sweden and Finland have stopped giving puberty blockers to kids because we just don't know much about the long-term effects. Although common sense should tell you that when you reverse the course of raging hormones, there's going to be problems. You're way off on a time point here.

1:10:55We do know. Okay, we can pause it. We remember this. We've seen this. But go ahead, Tom. He made a comment where he says, and recently I'm at cocktail parties with Angelenos saying it's somehow fashionable that your child is trans. That was a point that he made. They missed the time. That was all I wanted to get to. So, Adam, thoughts? I mean, this is the perfect case for virtual signaling that I've ever heard in my life. If you don't know what virtual signaling is, it's basically saying, I'm with you. Let me prove it. Let me tell you what a loser the son is, Pat. She tried her best to make him gay.

1:11:29I mean, what a disappointment, this kid. She put him in high heels. She dressed him up in drag. He's doing Broadway shows. He's wearing skirts. And still, despite all that, he still likes women. Unbelievable. His name is Milo. And I heard that one day he wants to get married and have kids. What a loser. Your mother is virtue signaling to the rest of Hollywood. What a disappointment you are because you're not gay, Milo. Milo, do your best to make your mother proud and be gay. Maybe even be trans and cut it off. Because that's what Hollywood is at this point. And if you don't show up with, like, you know how they have those dogs in your purse?

1:12:14If you don't show up with a gay son, you're not in the in crowd. And here's my thing. She's reading a teleprompter. If you have something to say and it's heartfelt, say it. She's reading as if she was instructed, like, hey. Vinny, that's the least of our words. Whether she read it or felt it. The words that came out of her mouth are the most important. No, no, no. To me, you know what that means, Adam? She could have just said, I wish I had a gay son and just go off. She's reading it as a script, as an actress. Do you think she fully believes that or do you think she's trying to be funny a little?

1:12:45No, no, no. She absolutely believes it. By the way, her son is apparently on a Disney show, got millions of followers. He's somebody. He's doing good for himself. Disney of all places. He loves his mom. To me, look, to each his own. Do your thing. Truly, to each his own. It's none of my business what you choose to do as an adult, and you live your life. But when it comes down to kids, I had Bob Chapek there, the former CEO of Disney. He was on the podcast last week. Can you pull up that chart that I showed to him? The chart about the amount of LGBTQ characters. Do you know when it's the first time in Disney that a character said, I'm gay?

1:13:222019. Up until 2019, no character in Disney movies has ever said they're gay. Never. But I want you to watch us here. Who was the first character? Blue is LGBTQ inclusive Disney films. Look at the spike. What was the spike prices? During the Biden administration? And by the way, orange is valuation. Oh, wow. And blue is characters. What is the highest valuation of Disney? The highest valuation was$2.20. Okay. What happens in 2021? It's dropped. No Biden shows. No, no. But look at 2021. What spikes? The LGBTQ characters. what happens to the stock? It goes by by it. There's a direct correlation between the wokeness, the odd, direct correlation.

1:14:05LGBT with the stock. Direct correlation. So I said, what happened here? What's the story here? And to summarize, it's, it's, it's, it's worth watching the interview, especially for the parents that you're, I asked him about this thing. And he says, he wasn't with it at first. He's like, look, we got kids. And this is eventually it was kind of coerced and forced into taking a position because typically whatever movies you do, They've already been budgeted and built four years previous to that. You know how we always hear about Kathleen Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy? I don't know that name we hear about.

1:14:36You know who didn't hire Kathleen Kennedy? Disney never hired Kathleen Kennedy. You know who hired Kathleen Kennedy? You actually know this? She's not part of Bob Iger's camp. So a lot of times we would blame it on Bob Iger. Do you know where she comes from? Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, we talked about it. So when they bought Star Wars in 2012-ish, she was hired by George Lucas. So Kathleen Kennedy came from the Star Wars franchise, and she came with the deal. And I think her contract just didn't, is not going to get renewed or whatever this year or last year. Something like that. But you just have to know, like, dude, you wonder why Disney franchise went from what it was to now.

1:15:17Parents are like, knock this shit off. Look what happened two years later to the characters. look where they're at now in 2024 2025 they dropped off but to see a business person watching this and Bob Iger put four board members in those were Michael Eisner's people that he had and they replaced him put his own people and it's kind of like your own Supreme Court that you have any so he put his own four in you could do that as a new CEO that's his job to put it in there and then a couple other guys that would come Pearl Water I don't know Pearl what was that guy's name something Pearl Ike these were a couple billionaires that were sitting on the board and they got ousted.

1:15:53They didn't get ousted. They lost the influence. Bob Iger kept control and they're still doing what they're doing. And the new guy that came in, Josh DiAmaro. If you go to pushing this to kids, parents will get sick of it. And one of the reasons, if there's anything that causes me to think that Republicans are going to win in 2028, is because Democrats haven't learned that even Democrat parents don't want boys competing in women's sports. They haven't learned that even Democratic parents who are pro-choice, who are pro-choice, who want some of these entitlement programs for people, even they don't support these LGBT indoctrination and puberty, they don't support that.

1:16:36So until Democrats go back to common sense on this topic, they're going to keep losing their 5 to 10 percent of Democrats that they've had in a while. I think it's a double dumb move. They don't get it. Can I give a disclaimer? Nobody, it sounds like we're going really hard on the LGBT community. None of us have a problem with gay people. I have gay friends. You used to tell stories about when you were in the army, you'd go to gay clubs. Like none of us have problem with gays, zero in that regard. where it gets to become an issue is when you start to trans the kids and you start messing with the kids.

1:17:09And here's an example where Disney tried to basically indoctrinate the youth through movie characters and movies and doing all this. And they went woke and they went broke just like Bud Light and just like Nike. And that's where you draw the line in the sand. But families, because you said this, this is ultimately my point, who is Disney's customer? It's the parents, not just the kids. Right? But can I show a question though, Pat, really, really fast? Do you guys think in 2020 if a Democrat comes into power, this type of stuff isn't going to keep happening? Like it won't come back? By the way, I hope so.

1:17:41No, no, no. No, no. I hope they campaign on it. Yeah. I hope they campaign on it. I truly do. I hope they campaign on it. Like even when I had Governor Westmore here and I asked him the question, he said my son would never be gay. Yeah. But he wouldn't go all to say that this is too much. He wouldn't do it because he knows. So they're all worried about where the money and the influence is going to come. But I hope they continue the same play. Keep doing it because common sense is going to go a very different direction. Okay, heating oil. Let's tell the story because this is truly concerning a lot of different people, especially in the northeast of what could happen.

1:18:14A lot of people talk about diesel. They talk about gas prices. But heating oil bill is expected to jump. Ready? 31.3 % this winter. with Northeast households averaging nearly$2 ,300. Averaging$2 ,300. So let's kind of go through this. Heating oil households will pay an average of$2 ,300 between mid-November and mid-March, a 31.3 % increase from last winter. The National Energy Assistant Director Association projected nearly 4.8 million U.S. homes. Ready? 4.8 million U.S. homes. Homes. How many people live per home? Two, four, five? 4.8 million U.S. homes using heating oil, about 82 % in the Northeast.

1:18:59The U.S. war with Iran that began at the end of February disrupted shipping through the strait. Brent crude, the source of nearly all U.S. heating oil, sat at 106 a barrel in mid-September, up more than 30 % from previous to when the war began. While the war may be thousands of miles away, families will feel it when the heating oil truck pulls into their driveway, said NEADA Executive Director Mark Wolf, President Trump, rejected Iran's plan to reopen the strait, and senators from both parties have asked him to release emergency heating oil. The American Gas Association projected gas households will pay about 14 % less than last winter, averaging$497 versus$794 for electric space heating with record dry gas production expect in 2026.

1:19:47NEADA forecast overall winter heating costs rise more than 8.7 % to a national average of 1030. Tom, thoughts on this? So let's go take a look at a chart. I just sent the guys a chart right here. Click on one year. Perfect. One year. Take a look at this, Pat. If you go down to February, at the end of last winter, Vinny,$2.47,$2.38. You see that? Multiply that times two. $4.80. Go look at where we are right now. We're at 4.36. You know what this means? It's going to be 2x. There it is, Pat. It's about to be 2x. At$4.80, it's exactly 2x last winter. So those people are going to have double the price of heating oil one winter to the next.

1:20:32That's not sustainable. And earlier today, right after the jobs report, President Trump called on Europe to release their surplus stocks of diesel because he's trying to bring more diesel into the market to help. That's what's going on. So we need a reversal. But, Pat, I don't think we can get it. It takes about, say, 75 days to turn the price based on – What do you think we won't get it? I don't think we're going to get a decrease unless it's artificial. It takes 75 days. 75 days today is what? November and October, November is 60 days. And then, you know, that's December 10th. Here comes winter.

1:21:14You know, you're going to see how cold it is and just watching playoff games. Baseball, it's going to be down into the 50s. You guys got to remind me of that, please. Time for that. So I saw this coming, and I'm really heavy about it because this is really— This is real because this is going to really impact the consumer. 2x. 2x. That's real cost that we're talking about. And so, Tom, when this happens, to some, what percentage of these 4.8 million households do you think it will impact directly? Of course, it's 100 % of them. But which one of them are going to be like, turn off the heater. Let's do this.

1:21:52Wear more clothes. What percentage do you think can even financially afford this increase? probably only about 60 % because a lot of people are on natural gas in newer home communities and the heating oil is in some of the older communities and older homes so I'm going to say there's probably a full third that's going to be my guess a full third of the customers in the northeast have limited budgets and can't take that hit Vinny, thoughts on this I'm going back to it So, Tom, this is all coming from what? Why the drastic increase? Refining cost and the cost of a barrel of oil. Cost of a barrel of oil is about 60 % of the increase in gasoline.

1:22:37The other is the increase in refining cost, also known as 3-2-1 crack spread. Those two things are there. We've closed refineries in California. We closed a refinery on the Gulf Coast. We have not built new refineries or refinery capacity. So the refining is up. The cost to refine is up because of the shortage of factories to refine it. But then$99, I think, today. Is it a barrel? I think it's$99 a barrel. So, Tommy, what are you just saying? It's supply and demand? No, no. Yes, it's supply of oil, but it's also supply of refining. And it's going to take a while to turn this. Because even if you brought the price of oil down, you're only going to get about 60 % of the increase in cost for gasoline diesel down.

1:23:20So is it safe to say the short-term pain for the long-term game? It's not going to be a short-term pain, Tom. This is going to take a long time. This is going to be a long-term pain because they have to build it. No, they have to build the refineries. I hope that there's some artificial means to do it. It doesn't appear that the natural market forces are going to be able to turn the corner on this until maybe the second half of the winter, and it's not going to go down to where it was last January. Adam. Well, being that I'm from Miami, I've never had to worry about a heating bill, so this is not something I'm familiar with.

1:23:51I will say that winter is coming for all you people out there, and you might want to get a nice jacket like the one Vinny's wearing to stay warm. But can we touch on the story that is right above that one, where it talks about the everyday cost increase and the high gas prices that are spurring states to waive taxes and regulations amid midterms, which kind of, I think, correlates with this story, which, in my interpretation, this is a great move that certain states are doing. You know how they say that, like, all politics are local? yes we acknowledge that uh prices are up tom taught me a lot about brent oil and west texas oil and dubai oil dubai oil tom was teaching me all this stuff touch it's like wine by the way your your your your clip on uh uh that you put on vt is like a half a million views it was great it was a on gasoline on gasoline it was great but what what i found interesting is that certain states can do certain measurements to actually lower the cost it says about one-third of u.s states have implemented some form of fuel tax relief.

1:24:51But here's the catch, and this is where politics get into it. Most of those states, if not all, are Republican states. They're red states. Governors in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas have all provided fuel tax relief for their agriculture and have helped lower tax costs. That's trucks and tractors on farms. Because they actually want to help their people. Now, in my opinion, why are the blue states not helping their people? We all know that California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, who all trend incredibly blue, why don't they lower the cost for their people?

1:25:29Because in my opinion, they want their people to feel the increase of cost and say, Trump did this to you. We're not going to do anything, nothing to lower the cost, we're going to actually hold up this price and make you suffer more. So this is where this gets a real tricky situation. Each of these states are helping their people in red states, blue states. So let me give you this here. The NEADA says low-income Northeast households alone are expected to pay almost$1.1 billion more in heating this winter. You divide it apart, that's around 878 increase average. That points to an order of magnitude of around 1.2 to 1.3 million low income oil-heated households.

1:26:16So then if I'm asking a question and saying, who are these people? Who gets hit hard? Seniors and people living in fixed incomes, which makes sense. Households under roughly 60K a year. And I ask, what percentage is under 60K a year? the EIA 2020 data shows energy rises up. Approximately 64 % of households under 10 ,000 58 % of households 41 % at 30 ,000 to 60 ,000 reported some form of energy insecurity. Above 100 ,000 it drops dramatically. So it makes sense. Above 100 ,000 you're still going to be fine. At the 60 ,000 number that's going to be impact. Households already behind on utility bills.

1:26:55NEAD estimates that about 21.5 million U.S. households, roughly one in six, are already behind on energy bills. Damn. Did you know that? I did not know that. I did not know that. Did you hear the number? Vinny, one in six households in America right now are behind on energy bills, not credit cards. Just owing money to - That's scary. So one in six, 21.5 million households are behind on energy bills. Low-income households currently spend about 8.6 % of their income on household energy versus 3 % for other households and people in New England. This is extremely concentrated geographically in an AIA 2020 data.

1:27:36Roughly 53 % of Maine and Vermont households, 43 % in New Hampshire, 40 % in Connecticut, 32 % in Rhode Island, 26 % in Massachusetts received few oil deliveries. Maine was still around 50 % dependent on heating oil in 2024 and last but not least is old folks' homes. old homeowners, old homeowners. Heating goes much more common in the older northeastern. This is we're praying for you. Hopefully they figure this part out and some states find ways to get creative with this but I kind of agree that they're not going to let this happen because they need this crisis to blame it on Trump. They need this.

1:28:15You can choose not to drive. You can't choose not to freeze. Let's go to the next story. Next thing I want to get to is, I really want to get into that baseball story, but I'll get into that at the end. The story I want to get into next is, Adam, are you feeling this? Are you feeling Uber delays right now? There's a story that says Uber wait times rise 20 % as prices climb 53%. So let me read this, and you tell me, and others as well, can you run a poll real quick asking folks, is anybody increasing prices in Uber and delays? Yes, no, I don't take Uber and Lyft. or put I take Lyft. Just kind of put that question in there.

1:28:54Watch this. The time between Uber matching a driver and the car arriving grew by 19 % from Q1 and Q2023. Same time period. While price per mile is up 53%, a new analysis by Len Sherman from Executive and Residence at Columbia Business School. You're charging more for less, Sherman said. The analysis relies on a number of inaccuracies and Uber spokesperson countered. Sherman examined 37 ,500 trips in six cities, wait time and roads, and five including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Tampa. The data doesn't include waiting for Uber to pair a driver. By definition, it's an underestimate, Sherman said.

1:29:36Once cash burning to acquire users, Uber has used up-front pricing to become profitable by charging riders more and paying drivers less, Sherman contends. by raising wait times and prices. Uber risks customer relationship as an AIG and lets riders compare prices with rivals. The 2026 Axios Harris Poll 100 ranked Uber 72nd on reputation, down from 58. Are you experiencing that or not at all? I haven't felt anything, and I'll tell you why. When they say that the Uber wait time is up 19%, that means if it typically takes you four minutes to get an Uber, now it's going to take you five minutes. But have you felt that?

1:30:12No, because if you order an Uber, you know that the Uber is not going to magically show up in 10 seconds. I understand that. So it's going to take five minutes. Is it eight minutes or ten minutes? No. Okay. I haven't felt that. Have you seen the prices going at? No, and I'll give you exactly. Today, I took an Uber here this morning. I scheduled ahead. Which is very important, by the way. A lot of people don't realize, the night before you go to sleep, set it up to pick you up exactly so you don't have to worry about it. And does the driver get to pick it earlier? Absolutely. This guy showed up at my house.

1:30:42He's supposed to pick me up at 7.30. alert to the driver. What time? It'll back up so many minutes. That's interesting. So that it gets to you at the time you want. Why don't you guys who never drive Uber to answer for me guys? He comes on time. He comes on time. He waits for me. It cost me$40 to get from Miami to Fort Lauderdale. How much was it a year ago? Same exact price. I have not felt it. And I take Ubers and Lyfts more than anybody. Because what they're doing is they're probably, they're not going to raise the cost on the consumer because the consumer is already getting pinched. To me, I've saved so much money on Lyft and Uber.

1:31:17You just did a whole breakdown. How much does the average person spend on a car vehicle total for the year? $12 ,000? Yes,$1 ,072 a month. Okay, so$13 ,000. Correct. I would have to take Ubers left and right up my wazoo to spend$10 ,000 to$12 ,000 on Uber right there. And I'll do it for you. Today, I'll break down the price of what it costs me to get you. Actually, no, I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Because if you take how much money you spend on Uber per month, about 500 bucks wait are you sure 40 there 40 back that's 80 just coming here once if you come here twice i i i you get a ride back yeah yeah okay so you get creative i drive with jayden on the way back because he's here and we drive back together got it so it's and i'm here three days a week so you spend 500 you spend 500 bucks on uber yeah but that's also so like let's look at it this way uh if i wanted to go if i had my car like this weekend i went out and and this past weekend you go out to an event in south beach i'm gonna have to spend 20 bucks on valet anyway the uber to get me there costed 12 bucks i'm saving eight dollars okay the gas is going to cost me how much these days so people really need to take a look at how much they're spending on their vehicles if you can get by and with not having a car and how much again is the average person spending a month tom $1 ,072.

1:32:39$13 ,000 a year. You'd have to be very hard-pressed to spend$13 ,000 a year on an Uber or Lyft. That's what I would say. Here's a breakdown of the pricing if you just want to know what happened to me today. The receipt, here we go. The trip fare was$30. The booking fee was$9. So Uber's taking$9 off the top. They're getting their money. I give the guy a$5 tip and the guy waited for me a little bit longer. They charged me one extra, one extra dollar. So it turned out to be$45 all in tip tax, this, that, the other. So yeah, point is I Uber more than anybody. I haven't felt it at all. This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome.

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1:36:17Because in America, in Miami, 98 % of the drivers I have, and I Uber and Lyft every single day, no habla ingles at all. Zero. So they're coming to take your jobs. These are immigrants who have been here 10, 15, 20 minutes. And they're coming to take your jobs. So if you're an American who has brains and has a will to improve, you can't just be an Uber driver. You're going to get replaced. Let me tell you what our audience said. 40 % said yes, prices have increased, and weight has increased. 42 % said no increase. 17 % said they take Lyft. So they take Lyft. Lyft and Uber is the same thing. And actually, I would encourage people, what I do is, you have a rule here.

1:37:04I've learned a lot from PBD. If you're going to get a price, how many options? Three. Three options. There's really only Lyft and Uber. I check Lyft and Uber every single time I don't order a car, and it's usually dramatic price difference. So this morning, Lyft was going to charge me$60 to get here. Uber charged me$40. What do I go with? I go with the Uber. On the way back, it actually changes. So I don't know what kind of mechanism they're using. Whenever Lyft is a certain price, Uber will undercut them. If you're just ordering Uber blindly and not checking Lyft, you're actually probably spending this amount of money.

1:37:40I guess the reason that I'm not noticing this, Pat, is because I'm shopping the market and saying it cost me$40 to take Uber and$60 to take Lyft. But also the business owner has to find a way to make it profitable for them. If they don't pass down the prices, they have to find a way to make money. What do you mean the business owner? The Uber. Well, I think Uber is like losing money hand over fist. That's exactly my point. So yeah, I don't know what they're doing. And it's only going to get worse as these Waymo's. Waymo's. Let me get to the next story. I think Uber might be cooked. Next story I want to get to is Krista Pike.

1:38:12So this story is a very weird story with Krista Pike. So this girl who many years ago, I don't know what the timeline was, 25, 30 years ago, her and her boyfriend, she gets upset at another girl, and she decides to go and get the girl. I think, I don't know what it was. They kill her, hits the head, grabs a piece from the skull. She ends up bragging about the piece that she has, and she shows her to her friends. She gets arrested. She gets the, what do you call it, death penalty. And in the state of Tennessee, they try to take her out twice. It fails both times. And this is the second time that it's happened in Tennessee.

1:38:53And other stories are what's going to be happening. The lawyer's coming back saying it's the state's fault. I cannot believe you did this. People are coming out and saying, poor girl, poor her. Can't believe she went through this. That is not fair. And I'm summarizing the story for you. But Vinny, I'll come to you first with this story. Yeah, and just to add to it, Connor, you have that graphic that I sent you about Colleen. Yeah, Colleen Slummer. Pat, check this out. Pentagram carved into her chest while she was still alive, okay? 300 cuts on the face, neck, chest, abdomen, back, and arms. Six inches gap across the middle of her neck, penetrating fat muscle.

1:39:27This is a violent, violent attack from a female, okay? Multiple extensive skull fractures from at least four blows to the head. two on the left side, one to the right eye, one above her nose area. Head injuries rendered her face unrecognizable. They couldn't even tell if it was like that. They obviously check boy or girl. Identification made part by dental records. You understand how bad that is? Bruises and cuts all over the majority of her body, dirt and debris, because they mean like that. Oh, sorry. She was dragged, clothing removed, and defensive wounds on her arms, meaning she was fighting.

1:39:59She was fighting the whole time. Okay, they tortured her. They beat her. And in prison, Pat, you think that she would be a changed woman? In 2001, she tried to strangle another inmate with a shoelace. Years later, she was recorded, Tommy, saying that she would do it again and the next time she would succeed. Okay? So this is, here's my thing, Pat. Evil person, even all that aside, I do feel, because as a Christian guy, I feel bad. This is, when you're supposed to go, you're going to go, meaning the execution should just go. Why are we still doing the lethal injection, Tom? even remember the movie Green Mile sometimes it messes up if it's not this or if it's not that just firing squad do a firing squad I have never heard of a firing squad where the person lived later on to tell stories or they were bruising and everything like that and there was other reports that she refused eating she didn't want her final meal and for some reason she was not drinking she was dehydrated which makes the vein search very very hard apparently they were having trouble doing it this is by the way She's been in jail for a long time.

1:41:03This is an evil person that I hope and I pray turn to God. Because a lot of people in there have a lot of time on their hands. Okay. She seems like an evil person, Pat. I can hope and pray that she came to Christ. But this is not a good person. Okay. And I feel bad that it wasn't clean. They need to change the freaking way that they're killing people. You know, it was a few people that were involved. So apparently she was thinking that this girl, Colleen, was trying to take her boyfriend away from her. So she teams up with her and her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, and another lady named Shadola Peterson lured Colleen to a secluded area near the University of Tennessee Agricultural Campus in Knoxville.

1:41:42And then that's where they beat her and tortured her, et cetera, et cetera. Horrible. Tragic event that takes place. And the case became especially notorious because of the extreme brutality and because Pike later kept a piece of the skull as a trophy. Yeah, that's exactly what she did. Now, let me continue with this. Shadola Peterson, her friend, got away, got off. Nothing happened to her. She did not receive a long prison sentence. She cooperated with prosecutors against, testified against Krista Pike and to Daryl Shipp. She ultimately pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and received probation rather than a murder conviction carrying a lengthy prison term.

1:42:24In contemporary summaries, commonly describe her original sentence as six years suspended to probation only. So even though she was involved in a murder, she got off because she said everything about what her friend did, right? And then when you go a little bit deeper of what they did, Krista Pike was treated as a principal killer. Evidence shows she had talked beforehand about wanting to kill Colleen. Slemmer participated throughout the prolonged assault, and Slemmer's throat multiple times cut the throat, beat her, ultimately smashed her. I can't even read this here. And I'm not saying we're glossing over it.

1:42:56Do you guys understand? With all the things that I said about what they did, the pentagram while she was alive, if you crack somebody's head open with asphalt and you actually go and you take a piece of the skull and you're showing it off to people at school, you are evil. There is no, I was fun. I was having a good time. I was young and dumb. Absolute. No, Adam, seriously, that's evil. I know we're talking about college girls making mistakes and whatever and the drugs. This is a different story. When you're taking off a piece of the head and showing it in school, Tom, it doesn't get more evil than that.

1:43:30You're bragging about murdering this innocent girl. And this is where I have fault with our criminal justice system. First of all, how much evidence do you need to get a murder conviction and yet you're willing to give a person that was involved in it probation for testifying against the killer? Are you kidding me? You usually do that when you need the witness, when you need something. I don't know what more you need if she's in possession of a piece of the skull. Gee, ma 'am, where did you get that? And I understand our appellate process, but this is where, you know, the courts became so clogged, Pat, that they developed what's called the rocket docket.

1:44:09The docket of cases coming up. They said some of these cases just need to go fast so that the people can be served because we, the people, need the court to be handling cases for the service of the people by finding criminals guilty and doing all the things they're supposed to do or by finding the wrongly accused innocent. That's what the court's supposed to do. I think there should be a rocket docket on death row because what you have here is you have people on death row who has strangled somebody on death row with a shoelace and says, hey, check. Next time I would have got it right and killed you because she's in there for life without parole.

1:44:41She's on the death penalty. So she's a danger to other inmates who may be there for a lesser crime. So I think you just got to get it over with. And the incompetency of the state to administer this, there is a whole bunch of stuff that goes into the lethal Jackson folk that I won't talk about in that they understand the size, weight, composition, everything, you know, of the person that is going to be injected. And yet they get it wrong. you know, why don't you just outsource to a gangbanger? They off each other with a single shot. I just popped a cap in his head, and it was that. And there's that.

1:45:21That's it. And you know what? In the state of Florida, they used to use the electric chair. The electric chair was undefeated. You know, you had a record of 296-0, so you don't beat the electric chair. And they thought it was inhumane because, Pat, you bring in witnesses for executions. and apparently smoke poured and then flames from the head of Jesse Tafaro in 1990 and again for Pedro Medina in 1997. So people were upset about that and the proponents were saying, well, it means that the electricity is working. And then in 1999, they stopped that. However, in the state of Florida, you can choose Old Sparky because it is still held in a small room, ready to go.

1:46:07And if you don't want the lethal injection in Florida, You can select all the parties. I want to show you. But my point is just do it. I want to show you this. I want to show you this a couple things. By the way, the boyfriend to Daryl got off and he just got life because he was 17 at the time. And he's the one that prevented her from running away twice, escaping twice. And records show that he gagged Slemmer and inflicted some of the cuts and wounds. So he got away because he was under 18 years old. And this is the lawyer talking about the failure. I think yesterday he talked. This is her lawyer.

1:46:40Listen to what he had to say. Go for it. We start by saying Krista is alive right now. We do know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving medical care. The state of Tennessee has shown us again that they are not capable of carrying out an execution consistent with basic human dignity. Last night was not just inefficient. It was cruel and it was torturous. It was also predictable. Krista's legal team told the state of Tennessee and the court that her medical conditions would cause her to suffer an agonizing death. The state and the court dismiss Krista's concerns. The governor's call for an independent review does not go far enough.

1:47:23after having endured solitary confinement for more than 20 years and a full attempt to kill her by lethal injection, Krista has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Krista's sentence now. Can you do me a favor and play the other clip on what they think is going to be happening? Because what some people are saying is they're going to use double jeopardy to get away and she's going to get off. And this is a very good breakdown. Go for it. It happens a lot in death penalty cases. these last minute Hail Marys to try to prevent the death penalty for occurring.

1:47:55And sometimes it goes all the way up to the Supreme Court or to the federal circuit court like it did in this instance as well. So there might be a lot of breeze fall, but I don't think it's going to really override the punishment. I've heard a lot about double jeopardy. This is not double jeopardy. She was already convicted. She was already sentenced. There's no double jeopardy here. It's really an Eighth Amendment issue where it's cruel and unusual to do this again to her as an individual. and under Tennessee law it would be at this time because they already tried twice. But I think in past cases they've waited like a year when mistakes or unsuccesses of killing a defendant have happened.

1:48:32So I think that's probably the most likely thing. By the way, it's weird because they had this happen again earlier, just four months ago. Tony Vaughn Carruthers, execution aborted before lethal drugs were administered because the team couldn't establish the backup line. Can you imagine that? And this is all happening while Tennessee is trying to find out what their next governor is, and this has become a topic of discussion in the governor race that they're having. I think Tennessee might need to take a lesson from Tehran and just do what Tehran does and just hang people from the noose. You mean we all know that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the best at that.

1:49:06They're leading the league in hanging innocent dissenters. So just do what's proven to get done and do like Iran does and hang people up. She smiles as if she's proud she did this. It's just like, it doesn't look like anything changed. Like, yeah, I would do it again, and she deserved it. And look at the smile on her face. Hey, guys, how you doing? And look how rich. Is that her on the left? Right. No, on the right. Who's on the left? I think the writer of the article. It's like Tulsi Gabbard's cousin. Yeah, but how rich. Tulsi Gabbard. And I get it. It's her lawyer. But how rich is it that he had the audacity to say that the way that they're trying to kill her was cruel and torturous?

1:49:40Give me a free. But you know what? This is why lawyers get a bad. I'm going to defend him. I'm going to defend him, and here's why. He is a criminal defense attorney who is supposed to use all means possible for them. That's his job. So don't criticize him for his job. You can say, how could you be a criminal defense attorney? That's valid. And I think it takes a special kind of person to contrive what is also lying. Have you seen Lindsey Clancy's attorney? Are you ready for this? However you killed the person that you killed, that's how we're going to kill you. And that family gets to watch if they want to.

1:50:13Do you want to pick fear? Amorabi's code? No, well, if you want to put fear in people's hearts, oh, we caught you, and you put a pentagram on her, and then you beat her to death, you're going to die that way. Or just give her cellmate with shoelace next time. Yeah, exactly. Hey, she tried to kill you with this. This is a stronger one. Yeah, unbelievable. This would make a very interesting interview, sitting with her to see how somebody gets to this point. All right, what time do we got? 11.02. Okay, we got a couple other stories that I'm going to go with as well. Next story here is MLB. So the Red Sox apparently played against the Yankees.

1:50:46Twice. Twice. And Tom, you told me that they won. The Yankees won. They advanced. Yankees won? Yankees. Congratulations. Very interesting angles on the story. The pitcher for the Red Sox, Sonny Gray, who used to play for the Yankees, came up with the Oakland A's, right? Played for the Yankees. And all of a sudden, the market's like, what the hell is this pine tar on his neck? I don't know if you guys have seen this or not. And he keeps wiping. Look at this. On the right side of his neck. Right there, right there. You see what he wiped? It's blocked. To be able to have a little bit more velocity.

1:51:18And grip. And grip because the weather's cold. Nicky's Nicky. So they're saying this is what was going on. In the post-game interview, and by the way, the other guy for them, who is the guy that Conqueros, who hits the home run, takes him 28, 29 seconds to go at the end. He was walking. They're like, you're walking as if you are ahead or winning. And Sonny Gray is doing the interview afterwards. and look what he had to say. Go for it. I think I'm the best pitcher in the American League going through the order the third time. I think that's a fact. Still does a funny commentating. Let's back it up.

1:51:49Sonny Gray, you are an absolute joke. In the American League. He talks shit about the Yankees saying, I never wanted to go there in the first place. It feels good to me to go to a place where it's easy to hate the Yankees. And even with all that confidence he claims he has, he comes into Yankee Stadium with pine tar all over his neck. And does a terrible job. Look at that. Pause it right there. Pause it. Pause it right there. Going to go back a little bit and pause it right there. Go back a little bit. Smoking guns. Look at that. By the way, do you know what's my favorite part of the story? Let me tell you what's my favorite part of the story.

1:52:20This is all leading to my favorite part of the story. Do you know the pitcher for the Yankees that Tom says is probably going to win the Cy Young and potentially the MVP? Cam Schlittler. Okay. Do you know what's the special story about Cam? Do you know his background? Not really. Do you know when he was coming up? Do you know what city he's from? Boston. He wanted his dream was to play for the Red Sox. And they turned him down. Oh, what a great story. So he goes and plays for the Yankees, right? And when he plays for the Yankees, can I share some stats with you, just so you know? Okay. In the game that he had playing against the Red Sox, he pitched for 6.1 innings, okay?

1:52:5310 strikeouts, zero earned run, nothing. He gave up nothing. But that's not the big deal. He finished with 117 pitches in the game. That's a lot, right? 117 pitches. The last time a Yankees pitcher pitched 117 pitches in a game was in 2012. It was a guy named CeCe. So bad. This is not a common thing. Tom can tell you 117 pitches today is unheard of today. This is not a new. No, no, it's not. But let me tell you what gets even more exciting about this. Across two postseason starts against the Red Sox, he's pitched. He's given zero runs, 22 strikeouts, and out of his six career starts against the Red Sox, six career starts against the Red Sox, guess what his ERA is against six games against the Red Sox?

1:53:440.9? 0.5 is his ERA. Anything lower than 2.0 is ridiculous. Are you kidding me? That's insane to me on what he does. So this guy is sitting there, and he's being interviewed. I don't know if you guys saw the interview, what he says. He says, listen, if you want to be a legend in this game, I don't know if you guys saw this or not. Oh, I saw it. And for the kids that play sports and you got things that's going on, this is the mentality that I love. Boys, I'm sending it to you. If you can play this clip, I send it to Vinny. I didn't send it to you guys. I'm going to send it to you for you to play this clip.

1:54:16It's a different clip. In this clip, he's being interviewed after the pitching game that he apparently had. I didn't watch it. So he says in this interview, he's just talking very ice cold, very regular, very calm, and he says the following. Folks, I want you to watch this. Play this clip for your kids. Let your kids see this. Okay, watch this. Go ahead. Play this from the beginning if you can. Refresh it. Refresh it one more time. Watch this. Get the mute button as well. There you go. Your position perfect. Again, the job's not done. We've got to get another win tomorrow. Listen. Yeah, I mean, again, the job's not done.

1:54:52We've got to get another win tomorrow. But, I mean, it's very well known that, you know, if you want to be a legend, which is obviously the goal, you've got to do it in the postseason. I am right. Have dominant starts and put the team in position to win. And that's kind of the most important thing. I thought a lot of the guys today did a great job of that, and we're definitely heading in the right direction. Don't you love that mindset, to have a mindset like that? You're saying this is the guy who grew up being a Boston Red Sox fan? This guy's dream was to play for the Red Sox. Spoiler alert.

1:55:24It's like you grew up a Muslim, you become a Christian, and you want her to be an imam, and you become a – That's how divergent New York and the Red Sox are. No, the Red Sox, the two, it is a religion for these guys. Wow. It is a religion for these guys. And then Ben Rice, who to me looks just like Roger Maris, did he hit a grand slam or something? Some people told me Ben Rice hit a grand slam or he had a big home run. Oh, by the way, how great is that, Pat? The Yankees did hit a grand slam. By the way, this is his upbringing. Ben Rice is on the left. He's our designated hitter. And how awesome is the decision as the New York Yankees not to – Aaron Judge has been wanting to come back.

1:56:00Stan wants to come back. They're in the dugout, but they're not letting him come back. Can I tell you a good story, though? This is the good story, Vinny, that we have to tell. You have to. One of the pitchers from the Red Sox, his name is Peyton Toll. Tolley. It may be Tolley. Tolley. Peyton Tolley. There's two clips that Vinny brought up. Can you do me a favor and bring these two clips up? Okay. Two of them. First one. Go to the first one that shows when he's being picked up and going to the Major League. This is the clip of him being told, you're about to pitch your first big Major League Baseball game.

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1:59:03Tomorrow, there's a game here. Pirates versus the Red Sox. Paul Skeens versus TBD. We were thinking I'd turn that TBD into Toley. Bro.

1:59:16Isn't that great? Don't you love this guy? He's such a good guy, bro. This guy's a good guy. That sounds good to me. Yeah. Wouldn't you love this guy? By the way, we were watching. Is that his first game ever that he was going to play? Yeah. And then watch this video. Vinny, why don't you tee up this next video of what he says here? Paul Skeen's National League Cy Young Award. Yeah, exactly. It's not like you're going up against anybody. Welcome to the show. Great stash on this guy. It's like a ball player. So he's explaining here how, you know, why he has you're so pretty inscribed on his glove.

1:59:49On his glove, he has a statement that says you're so pretty. Yeah. A tribute to his mother, Gina, who passed away last year from cancer. Just watch this. Watch this here. Go for it. Tell the fans who don't know, what is on your glove and why? So on it, I have You're So Pretty. And every game throughout high school, I'd always known mom was there. She'd yell, you're so pretty. It was meant to embarrass me for a long time. And I found quickly, it's like, who loves me? So now every time I look down to see that, it's my little reminder. Like, hey, crap happens on the field, but you're still pretty.

2:00:22Like You're still good You're more than just a big point I mean this is a guy you love Who doesn't love a player like this He loves his mom And he's a Red Sox guy But you love him And he loves Jesus Yeah he does And I love Like that's And again Pat Again Is that what it says He really says I love Jesus Can you play that Stop it Play from But I cuss a little bit But I cuss a little bit She's like Hey so does Vinny It's okay Go out there and kick ass I kick cancer's ass So you can go out there And kick there I love it Anytime that I get to Shout out to you, buddy. This is the beautiful part about sports and baseball on what happens.

2:00:57So, Tom, walk me through because one of the stats that came out, which is fascinating, is that MLB attendance rises for the fourth straight year to 71.75 million. Look at the Tigers. 71.75 million fans watching this. I thought last year when you guys won the World Series, in my opinion, the greatest World Series I ever watched. That was the Toronto one? Oh, it was six. The greatest World Series I've ever watched in my life. It went game seven, didn't it? It did. It did. But attendance rose. But, Tom, at the same time, while attendance rose, the Houston Astros are in the playoffs. And you just said to me, 7 ,000 people weren't there in the audience, and they're booing their own.

2:01:37How is that even possible? Well, I'll tell you why it's possible. The Houston Astros finished with an incredible record of 81-81. So they did not have a winning season. They fought to a tie with themselves. And if you take a look at what was going on in the American League West, that was kind of the dark side of baseball. It was nobody wanted to win, and the rest of the American League just beat the crap out of them. And the Houston Astros are now 0-9 at home in playoff games dating back. They got swept in the wild card this year by the Chicago White Sox. Two years ago in 2024, they got swept in the wild card at home.

2:02:14You're opening up the wild card at home. You're supposed to win. You're the home field. They lost, so that's four. And then the previous year, 2023, do you remember that remarkable American League Championship Series between the Rangers and the Astros? The Astros won all three games at Texas, and Texas won all four games at Houston. The home team never won in that ACL, yes, and somehow the Rangers went to World Series and won it. They lost those four, so that's 2023. And then they lost one game the prior year. So it's been 2022 since they've won a home playoff game, and they've been in the playoffs four years.

2:02:53The fans are tired of it. Also, if you talk to the Astro fans down there, there are some that have read the stories about the people that left after 2017. We know what happened in 2017. They cheated. They won the World Series. They beat the Dodgers. And they beat it with hidden cameras and banging on tubs. It all makes sense now. Yeah, and Altuve hits a home run. and he's like, don't take off my jersey. Because he was wearing a buzzer. He was wearing a buzzer, allegedly. Allegedly. So that's what's going on. Then, with the Astros, Pat, you have just, I think, a lack of effort on the field. They've kind of lost mojo.

2:03:35But the state of baseball is good. We had a great World Series last year, not because the Dodgers were in it, because it was simply great baseball. and this year the stadium experience has been better and I think Pat something they did I want your opinion on this as a baseball owner is I think the shot clock that they brought to baseball for pitching yeah and you can only step out of the batter's box and scratch yourself and and remember they used to step out yeah literally when I say scratch yourself they would adjust their cup and then they would sit there adjust their gloves and then get back in the batter's box and it was It's like, well, people stop fidgeting and just play.

2:04:12It's like that's why they have a shot clock in basketball, so you don't sit there just bouncing the ball, wasting time. And that's why they have the clock in football. So baseball brought it. And I think it's resulted in a good thing. I also think that the rule that the relief pitchers, Pat, have to face a minimum of three batters. Remember when you used to have five pitchers at the end of a baseball game, Pat? Yeah. Like five left-hander, right-hander, left-hander, right-hander. and it was worse than all the timeouts in the NBA where it takes five minutes. Is that a rule now? You have to face three batters?

2:04:43Correct. What happens if you're getting smoked? Guess what? Then the manager brought the wrong guy in. Then what happens if you get injured? Let me tell you what has happened, though. A couple things to be thinking about. The other day I'm sitting there and I'm asking myself one question because I noticed everybody that would come up, he had 243. He had 228. He had 265. These are guys that are in the freaking playoffs. They're hitting.240,.250,.260. I remember watching playoffs 30 years ago,.328,.317,.341, Paul Molitor. You know, you would see Larry Walker,.370, Juan Gonzalez,.350, A-Rod,.328.

2:05:19What the hell happened to batting average? Do you know in 1996 what the average batting average was in baseball? The average. Average. .250. .270. Wow. In 1996. You know what it is today? .244. What happened? I'm going to tell you exactly what happened. Tampa Bay Rays changed the game when they realized, I'm no longer needing to pitch. We used to have a lot of complete games. We used to have a lot of shutouts. We had a lot of guys that was pride. 17 complete games, shutouts. You know, six complete game shutouts. Nobody gets complete games anymore. It doesn't matter. They went to mathematics. So you start off strong.

2:05:50So low ERA, first, second, third inning. And then they started noticing that it drops around fifth, sixth. And like, you know what? Let me get rid of them after the sixth. You need five minutes to really get the win. So then they bring two, three, four pitchers. So every average game has five pitchers. The game got boring to a pitcher, but audience has now shown up. But let me tell you what happened. This is one thing I don't like. I'm glad you broke that down. Vladimir Guerrero, who yesterday, last year, if you guys can find this clip, last year, the guy plays in the greatest World Series ever I watched.

2:06:24You remember when they're going up against the Dodgers? You almost beat the Dodgers. The greatest World Series. It was like, hey, thank you, Dodgers. Thank you, Toronto, for putting on an amazing show. Every game was exciting. Congratulations for the Dodgers for winning. Well deserved. But the one person that we all started looking at as a person you feared was who? Vladimir Guerrero because what he was doing in the playoffs. You know what happens after last year? He gets a$500 million contract. And he's being interviewed. In an interview, guess what Vladimir Guerrero says? He says, they didn't pay me to hit 40 every year.

2:07:02He says, they paid me for what I did last year. I want you to watch his comments. Can you turn on? Okay, go for it. Watch this. Oh, my God. So he says, they didn't pay me$500 million on what they want me to do this year. They paid me$500 million because of what I did last year. No. That's not the way it works. Now watch. Let me tell you what happens next. Do you know this year he played 147 games? Okay? Yeah. That's a lot. You played 90 % of the games. Yeah. Do you want to know how many home runs he hit this season? Tom, do you know how many home runs he hit this season? Less than 30? No, no. I just want you to know.

2:07:37This is a guy that was hitting 400 in the playoffs last year, 350 in the playoffs last year. How many home runs do you think he played in 147 games? No major injuries. Don't look up the stats. I just want you to guess. How many home runs do you think Vladimir Guerrero hit this year? That's still a lot. That's a lot. If you hit less than 30, if you're this guy, you have a horrible season. After getting$500 million. I remember at the All-Star break, it was like he didn't even show up on league leaders. I don't know how many. But what would shock you, Tom, for Guerrero? His father was a phenom. If he hit less than 20.

2:08:07For him, what number would you be shocked with? Less than 20 would be a failure. 15 to 20 without an injury would shock me. Less than that. He hit nine home runs this year. No way. No injury. That's half of what I did. Only 57 RBIs. Wow. 72 runs. That's it. What a loser. Wow. Slugging percentage, 356. He has his money. But he got his money. That's it. You know what a horrible example this is to the other teammates? I agree. You know what a horrible example this is for the young kids? FYI, can you pull up Toronto Blue Jays' record this year versus last year? Toronto Blue Jays' record this year versus last year.

2:08:44Okay? What is the Toronto Blue Jays' record this year versus last year? If you go look at how many wins they had, look at this, Vinny. Last year's record was what? 94 and 68. And then you start paying. They were number one AL East finish. Of course, they lost the World Series 4-3. They almost won the whole thing. Look at this year. 79-83 in the AL East. They finished fifth, and Guerrero was not injured. Wow. But you got paid. Yep. You got paid. You learn what happens. Do you know in the history of sports, the most disappointing team ever, with the biggest budget as a team, that ended up going last.

2:09:23You know who it was? New York Mets. Juan Soto took the check, went to the Mets. What happened to him the other day? He can make it to first base. The guy fumbles. He doesn't get the hit because he's just kind of trotting like, let me tell you how much money I got, all this other stuff. Nothing is more annoying than you watch guys that were exciting guys. Like Papi would play. You're like, man, when this guy's playing, he brings so much pride to the game of baseball. I'd love to see Volodymyr Guerrero this year offseason, go lose 25, 30 pounds, recreate himself, come back next year, and go back into the big, the World Series and play against somebody like the Dodgers.

2:09:57The concern is right now the Yankees, what do you call it, MLB, has a lot of good things going on. They're getting viewers. People are enjoying baseball. Absolutely. People are enjoying watching baseball. And by the way, they're enjoying watching baseball during the pitcher's era. Yes. Steroids is out. You know how scary it is to do steroids today? You know what happens if you get caught? Do you know what the fine is right now? Out for the whole season? 81 the first time, 162 second time. Half a season, then full season. You're making$30 million a year. You just lost$15 million. Oh, you don't get paid either.

2:10:25Zero. No, no, your team gets a waiver. Your team gets a waiver. Zero. You pay nothing. So guys are doing no steroids. They're not even doing any of this, you know, nor testing or whatever muscle tech stuff that some guys, Rafael Palmer, all these guys would talk about. So it is a very, very different league today to play. And so it's exciting. It's fun. But I hope they don't screw this thing up with this collective. Tom, is it the collective bargain agreement? that's coming out that they're going to go on a strike. Everybody's stacking up with cash because they know it could potentially next to be no season.

2:10:57Yeah, the collective bargaining agreement is the rules by which the owners and the players will work with each other. And if that expires and there's no rules to work together, then they're technically what's called on strike because the players will say, well, until we have a new CBA, they call it, we're not playing. So the players go on strike while they're trying to negotiate a new contract. What is Calci's number on a strike happening? Can you guys go and see if there's a Cal sheet on strike like MLB strike? Go ahead, Tom. Yep. I think we are. Lockout. Lockout. MLB lockout. The current collective bargaining we expressed December 1st has proposed salary cap and salary floor with a proposed$27 cap at$245 million, a floor of$171.

2:11:39Here it is. New CBA before December 2nd, 6 % chance. Oh, it's not going to happen. What do you mean? You don't think a strike is going to happen? This is – no, the agreement's going to happen. They're not going to have an agreement before December 2nd. That's right. If this was 96 % chance, there's no lockout. This is saying there won't be an agreement. This is no agreement. Which means a strike is going to happen. Right. Flip it over. 94 % chance there's going to be a strike. I hope they figure out quickly because baseball has won millions of fans back, and it's a dumb mistake if they do it now.

2:12:11It's a dumb mistake if they do it now. The sport is exciting again. The playoffs this year, last year, last four years straight. And you know what I'm saying, Pat? They updated the product without changing the heart of the game. Tom, you made a great point. Everything is faster. You're in there. And they're leaning on players like Shohei Otani and Judge. Short clips. They're putting them out there. And you know, I want people, because a lot of people talk crap. They're like, it's so boring. It's like, okay, I love the NFL. Not the last few years. Exactly. If you watch the NFL, people don't realize this, Adam.

2:12:39Three hours of a game, you're getting 11 minutes of hike. Like, uh, but in baseball, Pat, we're sitting there watching the game, Adam. We're eating. We're talking. We're doing. Yeah, last year. My bad. Yeah. Sports, sports trivia. You got to go. If you go to an actual game, guys, you're in the, that's why they call it America's Passive. You're in there. You're chilling. You go eat. You go shopping. Come back. Fourth inning. And it's still exciting. And it's still. You know what, Dovini? Yeah. You know why I'm wearing this jacket right now? Why? The faith over fear jacket that you can get on FLB.com.

2:13:08Yeah. Because I have faith. They're going to figure it out. it's faith over fear baby it's faith over fear baseball is going to figure it out and they got to put that in place I say this to everybody if there's a sport I'm convinced it's not like I have insider information I don't want to leak my sources because you get in trouble God's favorite sport is baseball this is documented by the way it's in the bible what were the first words in the bible? In the big inning. Oh, wow. It's in the Bible. It tells you. In the big inning. But that's a mistake. That is just sacrilegious. Some people say it's in the beginning.

2:13:51No, no, no, no, no, no. It's actually in the big inning. So he's talking about maybe the ninth. The Bible starts with excitement. That's a baseball guy. Don't let anybody fool you, by the way. It's not football. It's not soccer. Baseball. It's not hockey. It's baseball. There's something about baseball. You get to sit. You know, by the way, I am praying the Yankees. go to the World Series. And I'm praying the Dodgers go. You know why? Because I want to go to New York and I want to go watch the World Series together. That is such a great experience going to the game. Yankee fans show up. Last time we were there, a bunch of guys coming and talking.

2:14:26It's great conversations. But anyways, with that being said, I think games start. Guys, remind me with the schedule. I think tomorrow starts. I'm not following this. I know tomorrow the game starts. Dodgers play at 4. Dodgers play at Atlanta. Yeah, okay. Yankees play against the Tampa Bay Rays in Tampa. In Tampa. And then you've got Chicago, Cleveland, and the last one is San Diego goes against Milwaukee, which should be baseball. Baseball is back, baby. Baseball is back. All right. Before we wrap up, I appreciate you laying out what happened with the averages. By the way, just for the record, I've been to basketball games, football games.

2:15:02Going to a baseball game, there ain't nothing like it. Something about that diamond on the field, it's incredible. But I don't follow baseball like you guys follow baseball. I'm more basketball. I skipped two games, but I love the games. Great game. I'll check stats just to see who are the good players. I do that. I was like, I'm looking at the average. Nothing. Six players batted above 300. That's right. Growing up, if you didn't hit 300, you weren't an all-star. Six players, and this guy, Jordan Alvarez, led the league with 316. I remember you used to lead the league. You'd have to be at like 340, 320.

2:15:39Home runs, you're talking, don't talk to me unless you've hit 50. By the way, he played for the Astros and had like nobody behind him. So he did that on a bad team where they could have pitched. Well, I also noticed something about Tom. Not only does he kind of low-key, you know, root against the Yankees. I get it. He hates the Yankees. You also low-key, I realize this, why you hate the Houston Astros. Yeah, they hate you. They beat the Dodgers. Us too. Hold on, they beat us. They beat us to get them now. Now I get what's going on with that game. You used to have a problem. Forget about bitter Dodger fans.

2:16:11Tom's got some bitter beef with that. No, no, no, no, no. Forget about bitter Dodger fans. Everybody in the league and CeCe Sabathia say that they cheated. That should have been a Dodgers-Yankees World Series. CeCe Sabathia said that they got cheated. Tom, who pitched in that game in 2017 for the Dodgers when they lost? The Persian guy. Persian? Who pitched? Hugh Darvish. Hugh Darvish. He helped you. I did help. I did help. I was at the game. Steven Afo said, hey, let's go to the game. Get out of here. And on the way to the game, these guys were so good at getting free consulting from me. I thought he was like Japanese.

2:16:45On the way to the game, they're like asking all these compensation stuff. I'm like, these guys, every time they do this with me. But I went there, and we sat there to hope to see the Dodgers win. Because at that time, I'm like, look, believe it or not, one thing about me, you've got to realize. If the Yankees are playing the Dodgers, I'm rooting for who? The Yankees. The Yankees. Anybody else playing against the Dodgers, I'm rooting for the Dodgers. I am telling you, I'm an L.A. guy. Dude, when the Dodgers won in Texas during COVID, I was wearing a Dodgers hat because I'm an L.A. guy still. I love the Dodgers, so I'm conflicted.

2:17:18But it's Yankees. To me, baseball is Yankees. To me, baseball is Yankees. Mickey Mantle, Roger Marris, Yogi Berra, Jeter, Ruth. To me, baseball is Yankees, Doug. Yankees? That is something about it. Where are Yankees at? Everybody knows. Ukraine. They're going to know who the Yankees are. Everybody knows that the number one team, the iconic. For you, it's the Fever. I know. It's the Florida Miami Marlins. No, no, no. You go to center field. I'll tell you. Punch Rodriguez. Let me tell you, the day, if we ever get a hold of a team, majority, it'll be some of the funnest games you'll ever go to. The day comes that we're majority.

2:17:58Right now, you know what a minority owner of a Yankees is? you know what you get to say? You just get to cheer. That's the Yankees, Doug. You get to do the seventh inning. Yes, that's what we do. But the day comes, God willing, if it happens, if the day comes that we own a majority, let me tell you, we have some ideas that you want, some of the craziest ideas we have, I can't wait for it. I can't wait for it. We would definitely make Tom or his daughter the GM. Oh, Bailey, for sure. If you think I'm joking with you, I'm actually not joking with you. But anyways, Vinny, any final thoughts? Guys, because they're going freaking fast.

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